That’s Allstate’s Scam
Allstate constantly points the finger in its advertising to people that are injured in accidents and has done a mass marketing campaign to create the impression that people who are injured by their policy holders are frauds and scam artists.
If you are in an auto accident, you will likely see paperwork from insurance companies that warn you if you commit any fraud, they will prosecute you. But, Allstate doesn’t want to abide by the same standards has been caught ripping off injured people in Washington, and it has been forced to pay the people it hurt through a class action. Details about the class action can be found here:
Allstate did not want to cover the full cost of medical bills so the company used a billing software program that arbitrarily determined the average pay rate for a procedure in the geographical area and then paid out only 85 percent of the rate, according to an attorney for plaintiffs. And it used these reduction policies on their own policy holders who had paid Allstate for personal-injury protection car insurance. Allstate paid a percentage of the bills, and it left its policy holders to make uf the difference on their own. The amount may have been small each time, but it added up to hundreds of dollars that unsureds had to pay out of their own pockets to cover the gap, plaintiffs lawyers said. “They should be forced to disclose that. It’s not fair,” he added.
Judge Downing will be overseeing the approval of the settlement, and having had the honor of working in his Courtroom, I have no doubt that Judge Downing will do an excellent job making sure that Allstate “pays up” instead of “stands on” its own policy holders who are involved in car accidents.
Without Plaintiff’s lawyers, the courts, and citizens to serve on juries, Allstate would be pocketing money that it owes.
