Insurance companies hire unscrupulous outside firms that promise to deny or slash claims. Insurance companies hire unscrupulous outside firms that promise to deny or slash claims.
Insurance companies hire unscrupulous outside firms that promise to deny or slash claims.
Oregon government says we can trust Insurance companies and their IME's. The nation s largest automobile insurer has settled several lawsuits over the past year that allege the company used fraudulent medical reports by outside firms to slash or deny insurance claims submitted by people injured in car accidents. Now, three consumer groups have gone into federal court in Oregon seeking to unseal the records of one of the cases, arguing that it holds clues to what could be a widespread practice within the industry. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Inc. After her son was injured in an auto accident, Foltz alleged that State Farm sent her medical claim to a supposedly independent outside firm for review, knowing that the firm would return a phony medical analysis that said State Farm should deny or reduce the claim. According to Foltz s lawyer and others who have represented plaintiffs in lawsuits against auto insurers, the Foltz case, which began in 1994, is but a small piece of a larger pattern.