Sep 8, 2010
Sep 7, 2010
Xactware Antitrust Investigation - Forums
.......the following letter was submitted to the Federal Trade Commission by way of their e-mail at 'antitrust@ftc.gov'. If this letter is the only one of its kind it will likely be shuffled aside, but if by chance, 10 or 20 or 50 or 100 or ..... Restorers from around the country of like mind submitted similar letters the likelihood of an active response should be increased substantially:
'To whom it may concern;
I am writing regarding a situation in the property damage restoration industry. This is primarily concerned with residential and small commercial losses and what I (and others) perceive as an attempt to impose pricing controls by the insurance industry at large through a company called Xactware located at:
Corporate Headquarters
1426 East 750 North
Orem, UT 84097
(801) 764-5900
Fax: (801) 224-5218
[url]www.xactimate.com[/url]
Xactware currently claims that 80% of all insured losses are run through their estimating program.
“Eighty percent of insurance-repair contractors and 16 of the top 20 property insurers use Xactimate to determine the cost of repairs.” (From their website)"
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Antitrust Suit Against Allstate, State Farm Gets New Life - Law360
Law360, New York (August 10, 2010) -- A federal appeals court has revived a putative antitrust class action alleging Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Allstate Indemnity Co., State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. and others conspired to provide policyholders with inferior replacement parts."
Sep 6, 2010
Facebook | Consumer Alert: For Victims of State Farm Insurance
Facebook | Consumer Alert: For Victims of State Farm Insurance
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Facebook | Consumer Alert: For Victims of State Farm Insurance
Sep 5, 2010
Whistleblower suit accuses insurers of overbilling federal government | NOLA.com
Flood Adjustment Methods Discovered in Qui Tam Case : Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
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Sunday is the 5th anniversary of Katrina. As always we appreciate the kind words.
I'll also note that a State Farm employee testified in a hearing held last year they had verbal authority from the NFIP to conduct their own brand of Flood adjustments. Dave Maurstad refuted that in a deposition according to the excerpts of the sealed testimony quoted in subsequent court filings.
These confoundingly curious flood adjusting practices that lead to the defrauding of the NFIP are not unique to State Farm either. Allstate is also complicit based on the court documents available in Weiss. In that case Allstate adjusters inflated the Weiss' property claim by including fictitious furs and jewerly in order to "hit the limits".
Unfortunately the Bush administration DoJ choose to ignore these clear cut instances of large dollar frauds preferring instead to concentrate on people that stole a few thousand dollars from FEMA.
There is no indication the Obama administration, which has yet to staff the US Attorney positions in Mississippi, is much more interested in holding these large financial services companies responsible for their actions. In fact he is more likely to let them pay taxpayer funded bonuses based on what we saw at AIG, which also similarily defrauded the NFIP after Katrina.
And to think the folks in the ivory towers of government and academia actually wonder why people are so pissed off these days. Out of touch does not begin to describe it.
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Flood Adjustment Methods Discovered in Qui Tam Case : Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
Flood Adjustment Methods Discovered in Qui Tam Case : Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
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Flood Adjustment Methods Discovered in Qui Tam Case : Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
Flood Adjustment Methods Discovered in Qui Tam Case : Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
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Flood Adjustment Methods Discovered in Qui Tam Case : Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
Slabbed has been dogged regarding its reporting on the Mississippi qui tam litigation involving State Farm. A recent post, Rigsbys file “Motion to Reconsider Scope of Proceedings in Light of Evidence Adduced in Discovery” – ask Court for additional time to conduct Discovery into “the Scheme,” provides some insight regarding the flood adjustment techniques required by National Flood versus how flood adjusters in the field actually do their job.
The post quoted from a legal filing that indicates State Farm made up its own flood adjustment rules:"
Cyveillance Industries - Insurance
A leading insurance company potentially saved billions of dollars in staving off unusual legal tactics in Hurricane Katrina-related damage suits."
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Fluff over substance at WLOX. David Vincent thinks Ed Rust is ignorant of what the company he runs is doing � slabbed
Sep 4, 2010
Sep 3, 2010
Sep 2, 2010
STATE FARM INSURANCE RIPS OF WIDOW & LITTLE GIRLS JUST TO SAVE A FEW BUCKS - STATE FARM, STATE FARM INSURANCE, HOMEOWNERS INSURANCE
(Free-Press-Release.com) July 22, 2009 --
My home in Cahaba Heights (Birmingham, AL) was destroyed by Fire in 2005. I was away, caring for my Mom in FL, who was terminally ill, and my young girls. On Feb 24th, 2005 I got a phone call....There had been a fire, and my husband, the girls Dad, had died. We contacted State Farm, our Insurer, and notified them of the tragedy."
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Sep 1, 2010
Aug 31, 2010
Breaking News! Judge Senter denies State Farm’s Motion to Exclude Testimony of Ralph Sinno – a Rigsby qui tam update slabbed
AUGUST 25, 2010
tags: Cori Rigsby, ex rel Rigsby v State Farm, Kerri Rigsby, Rigsby expert witness Ralph Sinno, Rigsby Qui Tam
by nowdoucit
“It is a rare case in which the parties’ expert witnesses will agree on how physical evidence should be interpreted, and this is not one of those rare cases"