#Allstate #Insurance sued for delivering personal info on a platter, in plaintext, to anyone who went looking for it
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/10/allstate_sued_pii_exposure/
Today I discovered a website you can use to determine how privacy-friendly a vehicle is, since a lot of modern vehicles will collect and upload your driving data to your insurance so they can raise your rates.
https://vehicleprivacyreport.com
Very useful to have, especially now that a lot of ppl are ditching their Teslas in search of better cars.
Insurance companies could strain to cover billions of dollars in damage from the LA wildfires. We look at why that is, and at potential solutions as more people live in fire-prone places. #LA #fires #insurance
Posted into YOUR CLIMATE IS CHANGING @your-climate-is-changing-csmonitor
State Farm Asks #California #Insurance Department For Emergency 22% Rate Increase
How Climate Change Could Upend the American Dream
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Americans have long accumulated wealth by owning their homes, but a new study predicts that spiking insurance rates and climate disasters now herald an era of widespread losses.
#GlobeLife #DataBreach may impact an additional 850,000 clients
Insurers Failed to Comply With Mental Health Coverage Law, Department of Labor Report Finds
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The probe found widespread noncompliance and violations of federal law in how health plans and insurers cover mental health care, echoing the findings of a recent ProPublica investigation.
California Bans Insurance Policy Cancellations In Boost To Property Owners. The Insurance Industry Prepares For Record-Breaking Losses
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/california-bans-insurance-policy-cancellations-140016434.html
"Private Firefighters Are Increasingly Popular with Insurers. But Do They Pose a Risk?"
The #LAFires "...raise questions over how the state should regulate private firefighters and how they should communicate with the public firefighting agencies leading disaster response.."
https://www.independent.com/2025/01/18/private-firefighters-are-increasingly-popular-with-insurers-but-do-they-pose-a-risk/ #InsuranceIndustry #Insurance
@itnewsbot First Allstate, now GM. How much do you wanna bet that they all are selling your data?
And why only 5 years? Is it ok after that?
Dell's Confusing Names, Health Insurers Repossess Limbs - HTTAY 115 HK
#Texas Sues #Allstate For Secretly Tracking Drivers Through Apps, Using Data To Raise Rates
#news #delete #car #carinsurance #insurance
@ryan the digital app spying continues.
Texas Sues Allstate Over Its Collection of Driver Data - The lawsuit accuses Arity, an Allstate subsidiary, of collecting data about people’s driv... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/technology/texas-allstate-driver-data-lawsuit.html #automobileinsuranceandliability #suitsandlitigation(civil) #mobileapplications #insurance #privacy
@bodhipaksa
#Insurance #advice
Text version, not just Alt text...
To everyone in a similar scenario: the tactic my doctor's office has taught me is to ask, in writing, for:
1) the name, board specialty, and license number of the #doctor making the determination the #treatment was not #medically necessary;
2) copies of all materials they relied on to make their determination;
3) proof the doctor making the determination has maintained registration in your specific state and #documentation of their meeting all their continuing #education #requirements;
4) the aggregate rate at which similar treatments are denied vs approved by the specific doctor being used for peer review.You are not entitled by #law to *all* of these things in most #states, but you're entitled to some of them, and you can always ask for them.
This is, she says, a wildly successful tactic, because if the insurance c#ompany answers them honestly, it gives you #evidence that the"doctors" making these determinations are practicing #medicine out of scope, without proper #licensing and #qualifications, in areas they are not competent in.
Everyone knows this is true; it's not a secret in any way. But it's in violation of a number of regulations, and a LOT of times the company will just give up and pay the bill rather than handing you proof they're violating the regs. It's a tactic that has worked for me many, many times.
rahaeli on Bluesky posts the above.
Her Mental Health Treatment Was Helping. That’s Why #Insurance Cut Off Her Coverage.
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Providers, patients and even some federal judges say progress-based insurance denials harm patients at key moments of mental health treatment.
One doctor’s recommendation to deny a 43-year-woman coverage “contained errors on practically every aspect” of her condition, the Labor Department said in 2012.
United and other insurers continued to hire the doctor over the next decade.
#News #Health #Healthcare #Insurance #MentalHealth #Doctors #Law
