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• Spam & UnumProvident (Score:1)

  by inkdroid (3294)

  This is good advice, and reminded me of a story [cbsnews.com] I saw on 60 minutes a couple weeks ago. Apparently the health insurance company UnumProvident [unumprovident.com] instructed their claims handlers to shutdown and refuse claims to meet monthly targets. This resulted in lots of people getting shut down unfairly.
  • Re:Spam & UnumProvident (Score:2)

    by pudge (1)

    This practice is not entirely rare, and often not as bad as it sounds; the idea is (often) that if the claim is legitimate, the claimant will re-file, or appeal, or whatever. I am not saying it is a good thing that they do it ... but usually, the people who have legitimate claims do get them covered. I don't know if that is the case with UnumProvident or not.
    
    • Re:Spam & UnumProvident (Score:1)

      by inkdroid (3294) on 2003.02.22 13:20 (#17397) Homepage Journal

      Unfortunately, UnumProvident had targets to cut claims which didn't correspond to the amount of illigetimate claims...so the predictable result was that legitimate claims were denied. I can see your point though regarding spam: legit mailers would notice that they have been shut down and present evidence that they are not spamming...while the real spammers would guiltily accept the verdict with no questions asked.

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