Well let’s take a break from healthcare insurance and look at what other types of insurance are not popular today, car insurance. This is a big stink going on over this billboard that the Consumer Watchdog Group paid for, and then was removed as the CEO of the insurance company threatened to go to court and all kinds of other threatening items added to his displeasure. The billboard is supposed to draw the public’s attention to cases of not providing services as advertised, so is this condition becoming contagious with insurance?
CBS is now looking at a potential breach of contract with taking the billboard down before the number of days spelled out in the contract. This one
will interesting to follow to see if Consumer Watchdog gets the billboard back. BD
It's not unusual for businesses to respond aggressively when consumers go online to complain about them, but it's not often a billboard causes a major dust-up. In Los Angeles, the non-profit consumer group Consumer Watchdog is demanding that CBS Outdoor reinstall a bright yellow billboard that read "Consumer Watchdog Says: 'You Can't Trust Mercury Insurance'".
CBS Outdoor must re-install the billboard immediately and fulfill its contractual obligation, the consumer group demanded in a letter to the billboard company sent last week. The letter, from First Amendment lawyer Anthony Glassman said that Consumer Watchdog would sue CBS Outdoor if the company did not honor the contract.
At its Web site -- the nonpartisan, nonprofit organization has listed the Top 10 Reasons that Mercury, the third largest auto insurer in California, can't be trusted. The group cites punishments Mercury received from regulators in California and Florida for its claims-handling practices, as well as smoking gun documents exposing the company's practices of lowballing policyholders with claims and incentivizing its body shops to use aftermarket and junkyard-refurbished parts rather than original manufacturer parts when repairing policyholders' cars.
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