Unfair Business Practices – An Attorney’s Overview
Insurance companies are an essential element of the personal injury process. Massachusetts law requires that insurers deal fairly with injured persons; to promptly evaluate their claims; and, when liability has been established or is clear, to make reasonable offers of settlement. Massachusetts requires insurers to act fairly and reasonably, and to fairly and promptly settle claims, and to pay punitive damages and attorneys’ fees when they don’t.
As an insurance defense lawyer, Attorney Malis became quite familiar with the tactics that insurers use to frustrate, discourage, or delay fair settlements. We use that knowledge now to help our clients, and to hold the insurers to their obligations. We have successfully litigated and resolved unfair practice claims against many insurers in Massachusetts. Attorney Malis doesn’t believe in idle threats, so he uses this weapon when appropriate to produce the best results for clients.
The same rules that apply to insurers also apply to other businesses, and we’ve taken our experience with these claims to other businesses when they defraud consumers — and we have had great success.
Unfair and Deceptive Business Practices are:
Use of fraudulent or unfair business methods that lead to consumer injury.
Unfair and deceptive business practices include:
- Insurers’ unfair claims practices
- Insurance failure to pay
- Insurers not acting quickly
- Other unfair business activities