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Author Bourhis, Ray.

Title Insult to Injury : Insurance, Fraud, and the Big Business of Bad Faith
Published San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (284 pages)
Series A BK currents book
BK currents book.
Contents Contents; Introduction; False Profits; Licensed to Steal; So Sue Me; Go Figure; The Seventh Amendment; Open Fire; So Help Me God; Pinpricks and Pretexts; Customer Care; Fact or Fiction; Some with a Fountain Pen; A Message; Liar's Dice; Friends in High Places; Kick in the Assets; Claims Games; Afterword; Exhibits; Further Reading; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
Summary Through a case study in bad faith double-dealing by insurance providers, attorney Bourhis reveals the mindset that drives illegal practices, how low-level employees are duped into unethical conduct, and how insurers manipulate data and witnesses in the few cases that do go to trial
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-256) and index
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Subject UnumProvident Company (Chattanooga, Tenn.) -- Trials, litigation, etc
SUBJECT UnumProvident Company (Chattanooga, Tenn.) fast
Subject Tort liability of insurance companies -- United States
Disability insurance -- United States
Bad faith (Law) -- United States
Insurance companies -- Corrupt practices -- United States
LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
Bad faith (Law)
Disability insurance
Insurance companies -- Corrupt practices
Tort liability of insurance companies
Law - U.S. - General.
Law - U.S.
Law, Politics & Government.
United States
Genre/Form Trials, litigation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005042050
ISBN 9781605094250
1605094250
9781609943615
1609943619