GARDEN CITY, N.Y., April 12, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- New York's Supreme Court has ordered UnumProvident (NYSE:UNM) to preserve additional evidence concerning its company practices in a class action that seeks to stop UnumProvident from using financial budgets and targets in its processing of disability insurance claims. UnumProvident engaged in a fight to stop the court from ordering it to preserve documents and data in the case of Weiller v. New York Life, UnumProvident and Paul Revere, Docket No.: 604285. In a lengthy decision, Justice Cahn of Manhattan rejected UnumProvident's arguments and required the company to save databases, emails, and other critical documents to be used in the class action.
In the Weiller class action, Quadrino & Schwartz is pursuing a reassessment of all claims denied or terminated by UnumProvident under insurance policies issued by the following companies: New York Life, John Hancock Life, The Equitable, National Life of Vermont, Provident Mutual Life, General American Life, and others. These other companies hired UnumProvident to administer their entire book of disability claims and to subsequently make decisions on those claims. UnumProvident used the same alleged illegal claim practices in denying and terminating these claims as they did with their own claims under policies issued by Provident, Paul Revere, and Unum.
The Weiller case is one of three class actions being pursued by Quadrino & Schwartz. All of the cases seek to stop the unlawful practice of using budgets and financial targets in UnumProvident's disability claims process. All of the disability claims covered by the Weiller case are not part of the recent government settlement that UnumProvident reached with most of the States in the United States and the United States Department of Labor.
Quadrino & Schwartz has over 10 years of experience in disability insurance law. Emerging as leaders in the industry, the boutique law firm has successfully represented hundreds of disabled people who have had their long-term disability claims unfairly denied or terminated. For more information on Quadrino & Schwartz, please visit www.disabilityinsurancelawyers.com or call (516) 745-1122.
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