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Business Insurance, November, 2002
Suit charges LTD denials from UnumProvident UnumProvident Corp. is facing a lawsuit that charges that its subsidiaries improperly denied long-term disability claims. Plaintiffs charge that the nation's largest disability insurer implemented an ``elaborate corporate scheme'' to deny benefits to plaintiffs.
The suit, which seeks class-action status, alleges that subsidiaries of the company awarded bonuses and promotions to employees based upon the number of claims they denied. UnumProvident has vowed to defend the lawsuit. Cleanup costs allocated to municipalities upheld District court judges have the authority to allocate the costs of Superfund cleanups among municipalities and corporate defendants, a panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has...
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