Fight Back and Win: How to Get HMOs and Health Insurance to Pay Up by William M. Shernoff

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Synopsis

The health care system in this country is broke; and more than ever, the evidence supports the contention that managed health care providers care more about healthy profits than healthy people. FIGHT BACK AND WIN is a practical how-to for all those Americans who worry that their heath care coverage won't be there when they need it. Chapters include: *How to Get Your HMO to Pay Up * Bothersome HMO Traps to Watch Out For * Practical Tips to Follow so that You Don't End Up in an HMO Dispute * Legal Tips to Follow if Your Claim Is Denied * How Ordinary People Fought HMOs. . .and Won * Answers to the 9 Most Commonly Asked Coverage Questions * The Awful ERISA Scandal * Sample Letter to Your Member of Congress * Insurance Traps that Can Effectively Cancel Your Coverage * What Your Insurance Company Won't Tell You *What to Do if an Insurance Company Tries to Rescind Your Policy and more.

Biography

is the senior partner in the law firm of Shernoff, Bidart, Darras & Arkin in Claremont, California. His law firm has helped thousands of policyholders win substantial settlements from over 150 insurance companies and HMOs. He has won many multi-million dollar verdicts in the courts on behalf of policyholders who have been treated unfairly by their insurance company or HMO. He has earned a reputation as being the most successful lawyer in the country in battling insurance companies on behalf of consumers. Shernoff is author of How to Make Insurance Companies Pay Your Claims (Hastings House, 1990).