SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 12, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- "Recent natural
disasters will once again reveal how insurance companies pocket
billions by cheating policyholders.
"Whether it's hurricanes in Florida and Texas or firestorms in California, the sad story is always the same.
Between their incomprehensible policy language and their
under-settlement ultimatums of twenty
cents on the dollar, insurance companies will do everything
they can to protect their astronomical profits," predicts bad faith
insurance lawyer, Ray Bourhis.
As 60 Minutes reported following Hurricane Sandy, insurance
companies used phony expert reports and contractor estimates to
cheat policyholders who had already lost everything.
And, according to Ray Bourhis,
who has spent forty years suing insurers for denying and
underpaying valid claims, this conduct is not restricted to
hurricane and firestorm losses. Bourhis literally wrote the book
(Insult to Injury1) on how Long Term Disability insurers
have been cheating insureds for decades. "It's the same thing for
Medical insurers, Business insurers - the whole lot of them," he
says.
So, armed with his trusty laptop, Bourhis is striking back. This
week he is launching InsuranceConsumers.com, a consumer friendly
how-to book in a box -- or rather in an iPhone. "IC visitors are
offered extensive resources including everything from
inside-the-boardroom secrets about how the insurers operate, to
detailed insights about every major line of insurance sold in the
US.
"Third Party, Homeowners, Auto-Boat, Business, Medical,
Disability, Long Term Care, Life insurance...everything. Plus free
legal consultations."
Bourhis is not new to the idea of fighting for people. He taught
high school in Appalachia, worked for Senator Robert Kennedy and served as a Vista Volunteer
with Cesar Chavez's California farm workers. As a
Berkeley law student he founded
Cal Advocates (now CalPIRG) and as an attorney in private practice
he won record verdicts and settlements in insurance bad faith cases
that were profiled on 60 Minutes, Dateline, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal,
Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald and
dozens of other newspapers nationwide. In 2001, he was appointed by
the California Superior Court to oversee reforms in the California
Department of Insurance.
"For generations," Bourhis says. "Policyholders have been
powerless and alone. Totally at the mercy of the insurers. And they
typically turned to the worst possible source for help - the
insurance companies themselves."
"No more," he declares. "IC is going to be there from now on. We
are going to help insureds force the companies to keep their
promises. Insureds are going to start understanding what they are
buying and getting what they are paying for..."
Check it out. InsuranceConsumers.com. Claims handling may never
be the same again.
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1 "Insult to Injury: Insurance, Fraud, and the Big Business of
Bad Faith" Ray Bourhis
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