Doyle Files Workers’ Compensation Bad Faith Suit Against Fidelity & Guaranty, Sedgwick

On June 16, 2011, Doyle filed a workers’ compensation bad faith lawsuit against Fidelity & Guaranty Insurance Company, third-party adjuster Gallagher Bassett Services, and their adjuster, on behalf of an employee injured on-the-job in March 2010. Fidelity and Gallagher Bassett denied the claim, even though the employee’s accident was witnessed by several co-workers, including the employee’s supervisor, who took the employee to the hospital after his accident.

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ABA Journal Takes on Texas Workers’ Comp. System, Ruttiger

The ABA Journal has released an article detailing the poor elements of the Texas workers’ compensation system–and its incentives for insurers to engage in bad faith behavior–denying and delaying the benefits owed to injured employees as often as possible. As detailed in the article, insurers take advantage of the workers’ compensation system to craft denials of financial and medical benefits to injured employees in manners that the system never could have anticipated. A symptom of this is the small number of workers’ compensation attorneys who continue to be able to afford fighting on behalf of injured employees.

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