I contacted the insurance fraud people:
Thank you for contacting the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud.
I don't know the answer to your question without more details. But filing a major lawsuit can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees with no guarantee the plaintiff will ever see a penny. That's why insurance companies don't take civil action more often.
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Dennis Jay
Coalition Against Insurance Fraud
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On Feb 21, 2005, at 11:32 PM, Barbara Schatt wrote:
Why don't insurance companies sue to recover their funds that are not used for the purpose they were granted?
Case, Terri Schiavo was granted 1.7 million, but within a month of having the award in hand, Michael Schiavo had hired an attorney to ...... He had stopped all therapy, and medial attention. I doubt a jury would have awarded that amount if he had said she wanted to die. Therefore, he was either seeking to gain the funds for his personal use or he is lying now as he claims she told him she wanted to dies years before her "accident". A curious mind wants to know.
Please respond.
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