Insurance

This is FindLaw’s collection of Insurance articles, part of the Corporate Governance section of the Corporate Counsel Center. Click on the articles below to learn about defense perspectives in bad faith claims and steps to take if you are the victim of an auto accident. Every year thousands of automobile accidents cause severe personal injuries and/or property damage. By acting promptly and responsibly, you can protect yourself and your family against lost wages and overwhelming medical bills. Law articles in this archive are predominantly written by lawyers for a professional audience seeking business solutions to legal issues. Start your free research with FindLaw.

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IRS Authorizes Grace Periods for Employer-Sponsored FSA Accounts

On May 18, 2005 the IRS issued Notice 2005-42 which significantly impacts reimbursement deadlines for health care expenses under employer-sponsored flexible spending accounts (FSA's). FSAs are an employee benefit by which employees voluntarily set ...
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Issue Two (Fall ’98)

Dear Clients and Friends, We Americans love our automobiles, don't we? We love buying them, driving them, comparing them---and, oh, that wonderful "new car" smell! Let's face it, in the Chicago area, you can't get too far without a set of wheels ...
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Joint Custody Can Mean Children are Double Covered

Divorced parents take notice of this recent case from our files: A young boy stopped his bicycle on the side of the road and was struck by a vehicle driven by two people. The person driving the car had dropped a cassette and told the passenger in ...
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Legislative Focus On Executive Compensation and COLI Issues

Congress has devoted considerable attention to executive deferred compensation and insurance issues in the last month following the collapse of Enron. I believe this attention is primarily attributable to articles in The Wall Street Journal and ...
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Liability Insurance Coverage for Y2K Problems

Reprinted by permission of The American Bar Association and the Author Many computers programs use only the last two digits of the year in their date codes. Those programs face the possibility of the year "00" being read as 1900 instead of 2000 ...
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Life Insurance Fraud: “Vanishing Premium” Insurance Policies

Several years ago, the life insurance industry began marketing individual life insurance policies which they could sell using "vanishing premium" sales illustrations. These policies proved attractive to consumers looking for permanent life insurance ...
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Lunch at Ho Wah or The Not So Absolute Pollution Exclusion

Stuart and Maurie had tried over the fifteen years of their friendship to meet every third Wednesday for lunch. The luncheons were one of the few constants in their lives which had seen the usual parade of changes - marriages, births, partnerships ...
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Massachusetts Automobile Accidents

Automobile accidents are crashes or wrecks caused by the negligence of one or more of the operators that can result in benefits being due to one, some or all of the injured victims. This may be true whether the injury is mild, moderate or severe ...
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MC Carran-Ferguson. . .NOT

Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar. Sometimes, it's a crime. By Eugene Wollan, ESQ. When I learned that the theme of this issue would be the McCarran-Ferguson Act, a subject that as a litigator I find professionally important but personally not very ...
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Medicare

SSA Publication No. 05-10043June 1996Sooner or later, nearly everyone will be affected by Medicare, the nation's major federal health insurance program. In fact, if you pay taxes, you're already affected by Medicare because a portion of your taxes ...
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