Category: Automotive/Trucking, Insurance Auto Dealer Insurance - Garage Policy: What’s Behind All the Auto Dealer Lawsuits and Claims? TASA ID: 3378 Auto dealers are often targets for lawsuits. Why? After a home purchase, your vehicle is likely the second highest purchase you will make . . . So, it's not difficult to understand why consumers become so passionate when something goes wrong...or appears to have gone wrong. Let's see why: Buyer's remorse . . . Damage claims . . . False Pretense . . . Lemom Law . . . Prior Damage Disclosure . . . " Read more
Category: Insurance Expert Witness Consulting in Insurance and Risk Management and Its Relationship to Research, Service, and Teaching TASA ID: 1747 Oftentimes, insurance and risk management (IRM) professors are asked to serve as either a consulting or testifying expert witness in insurance litigation. Since 1997, I have been retained in about forty cases, primarily by insurance carriers, policyholders, and insurance agents/brokers. Read more
Category: Insurance, Medical & Healthcare Healthcare Act TASA ID: 2099 The Patient Protection and Affordable Healthcare Act, more commonly referred to as the "healthcare bill," has taken over a year to construct and has been a lightning rod for political debate because it effectively reshapes major facets of the country's healthcare industry. Read more
Category: Insurance, Medical & Healthcare High-Deductible Health Insurance Plans TASA ID: 2099 Do high deductible health plans accomplish the desired goal of reducing premiums, limiting expenses and costs for the insurer and still provide valuable coverage to the insured? While the answer to the question has many factors and is debated within the insurance industry, several issues are clear. Read more
Category: Insurance Shedding Some Light on Insurance TASA ID: 2099 I have served as an insurance expert on legal cases over the years and stood witness to an insurmountable amount of cases that center around the agent/broker standard of care as it relates to the type of insurance sold or not sold to a client and if it was the appropriate type of insurance or even adequate coverage. Unfortunately, a discovery of poor standard of care is revealed when it is too late. Read more
