How to Make Insurance Companies Pay Your Claims: And What to Do If They Don't

by Ralph Nader and William M. Shernoff

Book Overview

Step-by-step guidance in making a claim and collecting from the insurance companies that refuse to pay legitimate claims. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803893256
• ISBN13: 9780803893252
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Hastings House Book Publishers
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 7 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 2 and higher

Customer Reviews

This is a great little book that could save your life.

I've read this book cover to cover, and it is both highly informative and easy to digest. Shernoff shows why he is preeminent in his field as a consumer lawyer, and his book is designed to help people avoid the necessity of going to court. Reading this book could save your life.

Good presentation of consumer issues in claims processing

Ralph Nader's Foward to this book is a well written, concise presentation of insurance companies evolution from "fiduciaries" to "profit centers". It describes the ineffectiveness of state insurance regulatory agencies and how the lobbying power of the industry managed to secure legislation that circumvented the US Supreme Court ruling that the industry was an interstate business subject to federal regulation. The remainder of the book contains simple, clear explanations of how the claims process works and suggestions for dealing with that process. There are also descriptions of the ordeals that claimants endure when "bad faith" practices of insurance companies force legitimate claims into litigation.