| The greatest ignorance is to reject substantive matter out of hand, yet insurance policyholders do it as preset course, unaware of their vulnerability till often too late.
With such compelling information the question is when will you preempt the course setting...join the base? |
Posted by tonyb on January 26, 2001 at 06:28:48:
ALLSTATE LIABLE FOR MISLEADING CONSUMERS-WSJ
NEW YORK, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Allstate Insurance Co., a unit of Allstate Corp., has been ruled liable for
misleading consumers by advising them not to retain a lawyer for personal-injury claims against the No. 2
U.S. car insurer, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition Thursday.
A pamphlet called ``Do I Need an Attorney,'' which the Northbrook, Ill.-based company began sending out in
1995, was intended to ``create confusion in the minds of its third-party claimants,'' a Pennsylvania judge
ruled, the paper said. The pamphlet told victims, who were non-Allstate customers, that disputes would be
settled faster without a lawyer, and that Allstate would provide them with their own claims representative, the
Journal reported.
Pennsylvania's attorney general brought the suit in 1998 and a hearing to determine civil penalties against
Allstate is due for February 15, with Attorney General Mike Fisher seeking up to $1,000 per violation, the
paper said. There are thousands of violations involved in the suit, the Journal quoted a spokeswoman for
the attorney general's office as saying.
Allstate intends to appeal the decision, saying in a statement it respectfully disagreed with it, the paper said.
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