Accident and Medical

Allstate Insurance Company and Allstate Property and Casualty Insurance Company today announced that they have issued proceedings against Michigan doctor and companies under his control alleging "unjust enrichment, fraud and misrepresentation."

You can have signs all over the place and get as many disclaimers signed as you can wave a stick at. But there remains a residual liability for providers of recreational racing.

The USA's Patient Protection and Affordable Healthcare Act 2010 comes into force in a few days. It will make fundamental changes in the US health insurance industry.

The USA's National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) says that "slip and fall" claims targeting businesses and their insurance companies are beginning to be examined more carefully for potential fraud.

The latest report from the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) shows that staged accident questionable claims (QC) increased 46 percent between 2007 and 2009.

Lawrence Saks, 57, of Rolling Hills, California, has been jailed for billing insurance companies for discretionary operations which he claimed were essential medical care - after he had billed the patients privately.

The Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, has accused the US insurance industry of "secretly bankrolling the effort to kill health insurance reform for millions of Americans."

California's Medi-Cal is under attack from all directions. California has no money. Its governor has been issuing IOUs that the banks are saying they don't want to take. And the state-run medical insurance scheme has suffered its largest yet healthcare fraud, says the US Attorney Thomas O'Brien.

Judge Michael Joyce sat in judgement on a range of cases, delivering his judgments from the exhalted position of sitting looking down at those whose lives he had in his hands for those moments. But in the background, he was banking the proceeds of his own insurance fraud.

There may be a political debate raging over the naming of the new and deadly disease that has been called "Swine Flu" but which many say has no connection with pigs, but equally disturbing is the confusion over whether travel insurance covers those who become infected with whatever the disease is.