Overlawyered » insurers http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:11:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 U.K.: “Injury claim referral fees to be banned” http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/u-k-injury-claim-referral-fees-to-be-banned/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/u-k-injury-claim-referral-fees-to-be-banned/#comments Sun, 11 Sep 2011 05:02:37 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=24523 Britain: “The government is to ban referral fees in personal injury claims in an attempt to curb the ‘compensation culture’. It says the current system in which personal injury details are sold on by insurance companies to lawyers has led to rising insurance costs.” [BBC]

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  • “For any value of x, ‘X’s Law’ is a bad idea.” [David Wagner on this Radley Balko post]
  • “Politicized hiring at DOJ” shoe is on the other foot now [Caroline May, Daily Caller; Hans Bader/CEI]
  • “THE FACTS: Nothing is unconstitutional until courts declare it to be so,” quoth AP. Whaaaa? [Taranto]
  • Pull back your town’s Section 8 program, get sued or investigated [James Bovard, WSJ]
  • New Jersey Turnpike Authority legal payouts include $150K in legal fees to ADA claimant [Press of Atlantic City]
  • NYT’s faux-criticism of Title IX enforcers: colleges aren’t cowed enough by them [Joshua Thompson, PLF Liberty Blog]
  • After silicosis-payout scandal, lawsuits aim at defrauded insurer among other parties [Brenda Sapino Jeffreys, Texas Lawyer, earlier]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/september-6-roundup/feed/ 0     Sebelius and health insurers: shut up, she explained http://overlawyered.com/2010/09/sebelius-and-health-insurers-shut-up-she-explained/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/09/sebelius-and-health-insurers-shut-up-she-explained/#comments Sat, 11 Sep 2010 05:07:24 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=19202 Eugene Volokh, Michael Cannon and Ed Morrissey react to the Secretary’s announcement that her Department of Health and Human Services will show “zero tolerance” for regulated health insurers who inflict “misinformation” on the public in the course of blaming ObamaCare for rate increases. More: Monday WSJ editorial (”Zero tolerance for expressing an opinion, or offering an explanation to policyholders? They’re more subtle than this in Caracas.”) And Michael Cannon at Cato at Liberty has a further roundup post of reactions.

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/09/sebelius-and-health-insurers-shut-up-she-explained/feed/ 11     Subrogation without adult supervision http://overlawyered.com/2010/08/subrogation-without-adult-supervision/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/08/subrogation-without-adult-supervision/#comments Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:10:36 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=18851 How litigious can insurance companies be when they find themselves in the plaintiff’s seat during the process known as subrogation? This litigious, per Patrick at Popehat.

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/08/subrogation-without-adult-supervision/feed/ 6     Waxman, Stupak demand info from health insurers http://overlawyered.com/2009/08/waxman-stupak-demand-info-from-health-insurers/ http://overlawyered.com/2009/08/waxman-stupak-demand-info-from-health-insurers/#comments Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:31:43 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=13260 A compulsory subpoena could follow if they don’t fork over information on “compensation of highly paid employees” and “expenses stemming from any event held outside company facilities in the past 2 1/2 years”, among other topics. As AP notes, industries that vocally support, rather than oppose, health care reform aren’t targets of the investigation. More: Politico.

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2009/08/waxman-stupak-demand-info-from-health-insurers/feed/ 8     Mutual of Omaha vs. Oprah Winfrey http://overlawyered.com/2009/05/mutual-of-omaha-vs-oprah-winfrey/ http://overlawyered.com/2009/05/mutual-of-omaha-vs-oprah-winfrey/#comments Sun, 17 May 2009 22:36:36 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=11212 Their lawyers are locked in a dispute over who gets to use the phrase “aha moment”. [L.A. Times, Omaha World-Herald, Yakima Herald-Republic]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2009/05/mutual-of-omaha-vs-oprah-winfrey/feed/ 4     April 3 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2009/04/april-3-roundup/ http://overlawyered.com/2009/04/april-3-roundup/#comments Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:09:56 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=10219
  • Those enviro-hazard warnings plastered all over because of Prop 65? They may be not merely pointless but untrue [California Civil Justice; a still-timely 2000 piece]
  • Is it somehow wrong for a public medical examiner to testify against cops — even when it’s in another county? [Radley Balko, Reason]
  • UCLA research scientists fight back against animal rights fanatics’ violence and intimidation [Orac/Respectful Insolence, "Pro-Test"]
  • Ezra Levant, himself a target of Canada’s official speech tribunals, has written a new book denouncing them, buy before they ban it [Amazon; Andrew Coyne, Maclean's] Has odious censorship-complaint-filer Richard Warman finally gotten his comeuppance? [Ken @ Popehat] More: another Warman case [Cit Media Law]
  • Roundup of recent sports/assumption of risk cases [John Hochfelder]
  • Already in trouble on charges of faking a will, Allentown, Pa. police-brutality attorney John Karoly now faces tax charges including alleged failure to report $5 million in income for 2002, 2004 and 2005 [TaxGirl]
  • Lawprof’s “Reparations, Reconciliation and Restorative Justice” seminar led to introduction of Maryland bill requiring insurers to disclose antebellum slaveholder policies [DelmarvaNow]
  • Judge tosses suit by Clarksville, Tennessee officials against activists who called them cozy with developers [Sullum, Reason "Hit and Run"]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2009/04/april-3-roundup/feed/ 4     Lawsuit: bailing out AIG unlawfully promotes Islam http://overlawyered.com/2008/12/lawsuit-bailing-out-aig-unlawfully-promotes-islam/ http://overlawyered.com/2008/12/lawsuit-bailing-out-aig-unlawfully-promotes-islam/#comments Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:41:01 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=8019 I discuss a silly new lawsuit at Secular Right; those who would like a more thorough treatment should check out what Eugene Volokh has to say.

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2008/12/lawsuit-bailing-out-aig-unlawfully-promotes-islam/feed/ 0     Obama transition on health care costs http://overlawyered.com/2008/11/obama-transition-on-health-care-costs/ http://overlawyered.com/2008/11/obama-transition-on-health-care-costs/#comments Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:32:36 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=7826 Coyote also points to this page, which magically promises simultaneously to reduce health premiums while requiring insurers to cover pre-existing conditions and doing lots of other generous stuff. Total discussion of medical liability issues consists of the following bullet point:
    Prevent insurers from overcharging doctors for their malpractice insurance and invest in proven strategies to reduce preventable medical errors.

    Yes, because suppressing current malpractice insurance rates by adopting artificially rosy premises as to future payouts worked out so well when tried in New York. Update Monday: transition yanks entire “Agenda”, this section and others.

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2008/11/obama-transition-on-health-care-costs/feed/ 7     Subprime mortgage catastrophe http://overlawyered.com/2008/09/subprime-mortgage-catastrophe/ http://overlawyered.com/2008/09/subprime-mortgage-catastrophe/#comments Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:40:02 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=7542 The Andrew Cuomo (as HUD secretary) connection (Wayne Barrett, “Andrew Cuomo and Fannie and Freddie”, Village Voice, Aug. 5)(via Bader, who has much more). I have more on the credit crisis here, here, and here at Point of Law.

    Related: Jack Shafer has a bipartisan list of Fannie Mae friends.

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