On October 27, 2023, Florida’s 5th District Court of Appeal ruled that a personal injury protection pre-suit demand letter needs to include only a billing ledger and does not need to state the exact amount that the plaintiff will be …
Florida investigators have charged a former Progressive Insurance claims adjuster with fraud, alleging that she used claimants’ identities to submit fraudulent auto claims, then pocketed almost $24,000 in settlements. Kiyuana R. Pasley, 41, of Homestead, was an adjuster at Progressive …
The Florida Senate is trying again to repeal the state’s no-fault auto insurance requirement with a bill that major insurers oppose and which the governor vetoed last year. By a vote of 10-1, the Senate Banking and Insurance Committee this …
In a federal lawsuit filed this week, State Farm Insurance accuses a chiropractor and his string of Florida clinics of widespread fraud by regularly and falsely claiming that car accident victims needed emergency care, so that the clinics could take …
In a class-action lawsuit that could affect no-fault auto insurance companies around the country, a Miami judge has sanctioned an insurer for willfully failing to turn over data that could show it was inappropriately shifting costs to Medicare. The auto …
Automobile insurance carriers in Florida may limit reimbursement to health providers in keeping with a fee schedule in a personal injury protection policy, the Florida Supreme Court decided in a decision posted today. “We agree with the Second District Court …
Ridesharing has officially arrived in New York, and confusion over New York no-fault insurance and PIP Loss Transfer has arrived with it. On June 29, 2017, the New York State Assembly approved and Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the state’s $153 …
Frustrated by a recent court decision temporarily blocking part of Florida’s no-fault auto insurance law reformed last year, state lawmakers are considering scrapping the entire law. Current proposals would reinstate to a tort system and mandate that all drivers purchase …
New Jersey’s Superior Court has denied a medical group’s request for a stay of the new motor vehicle personal injury protection (PIP) regulations last evening. The court’s decision means the state’s insurance department can now go ahead and implement the …
Some 2,000 Venezuelan women are threatening to sue doctors, private clinics and distributors for faulty PIP breast implants if they do not get free replacements in one of the world’s hottest markets for plastic surgery. The image-conscious South American country …
