State Insurance Commissioner Thomas B. Leonardi announced today that he has launched a formal inquiry into the business practices of life insurance companies regarding timely payments of death benefits to beneficiaries and the protocol used to locate those beneficiaries. The Commissioner expressed great concern that some insurers may not make reasonable efforts to locate...
Getting a fair deal on auto body work starts with choosing the right shop, according to the latest installment in Edmunds.com’s “Confessions Series” titled “Confessions from the Auto Body Shop” at http://www.edmunds.com/car-care/confessions-from-the-auto-body-shop.html. “Of every ten body shops, three of them are unethical and five of them do mediocre work at best,” said “Neal,” one...
By Colleen Shaddox C-HIT Writer The number of hospital patients having bad reactions to medications has gone up 52 percent in five years, according to a federal report. The Agency for Health Care Research and Quality tracked the problem nationally between 2004 and 2008. State data was not available. The report found 1.9 million...
Concerned that consumer locations are being tracked without their permission, Attorney General George Jepsen is asking Apple Inc. and Google Inc. to disclose whether or not its communication devices collect this information and if so, why. Jepsen sent letters to both companies Tuesday, prompted by published reports that said Apple’s iOS4 software tracks consumers’...
