Location: cook county, Illinois I was recently involved in a car accident. I was stopped at a stop sign, behind the white line and on my side of the road. I was waiting to turn left. Another driver who was driving on the perpendicular road ended up making a left hand turn on the road I was on. She ended up hitting me by driving head on into me. After she hit me I approached her vehicle and in a non aggressive way (however I was irritable) I asked why she hit me/ how she did not see me? She claimed she was distracted by her daughter and simply did not see me and hit me head on. She was very apologetic and admitted fault. I contacted non emergency police to come to the scene so we could exchange info. When police arrived they took our statements and the report states I was at the stop sign and driver admitted not seeing me and hitting me. The report also states I was not obstructing any road ways or her lane of travel. I figured this was pretty clear cut. However I recently found out through my insurance company that the other drivers insurance is now denying taking liability and claiming I am at fault because the driver is now reporting to her insurance company that I was in her lane and not giving her enough room to make the turn. Even though police report states the opposite and she admitted that she hit me to police because she didn’t see me. The police also stated in their report that she was at fault. The husband of the driver who was not present at the scene reached out to me via text the day after the accident to apologize for his wife hitting my car and requesting to fix my car by not going through insurance because he did not want his rates to go up. I did not respond to his text and simply just started the claim through my insurance. I am speculating this angered him and he is now encouraging his wife to change the story to now find me at fault. I obtained a copy of the police report and I am currently waiting on the body cam footage from the police that recorded our statements that night of the accent as proof that the other driver admitted fault to submit to my insurance since the claim is now in the arbitration process. I also sent screenshots of the text message the husband sent me as further proof as an admission of guilt to my insurance. I am curious, I know at this point the insurance companies are dueling this out and will present my proof to a third party and the decisions will eventually be made to determine who is at fault if I am understanding that correctly. But is there anything else that can be done? Can I go after the other driver for providing fraudulent information/ lying to her insurance? Or will that be determined in the arbitration process? Her insurance claimed they did a “careful investigation” and are denying my claim because they find me at fault. However it does not sound like her insurance obtained the police report so I am unclear as to how they performed a “careful investigation”. Lastly, is anyone able to provide any insight into the likelihood of me winning this arbitration case and if there is anything else I can/should do?

I recently found out that there were wrong 'occurences' under my name (list only) in family's auto insurance, which stated that i had two accidents between 2021-2023 "CLUE only". However, I did not have a license nor owned a car (my family only got the car in 2024). We had no previous insurance/cars, so these records were completely impossible and wrong. The insurance company asked me to contact LexisNexis to dispute and update it (because they said all insurance companies pulled that info from lexis nexis and there was nothing they could do to change it). Each time I called them, it was a min of 30 min on hold and when i finally got through to a live agent, they said their system was down so they could not authenticate anybody's ID and asked me to call back 24 hours later. I've been trying for 3 days, but each day an agent would tell me the same thing about their system being down/not able to help anybody at this point. LexisNexis also said that even after customers' ID were authenticated, it'd take 30 days to send a result by mail (another 7-10 days). It was a frustrating experience. Wonder if anybody had similar experience with wrong records from LexisNexis - thanks.

My son has two insurance policies, one with me and one with his Dad. Both plans are with BCBS. Dr office called to tell me they can't run the claim because BCBS website is showing that he is inactive on Dads plan. Dad says plan should be fine. So no idea why the Dr office is seeing that. I asked if they could just run it under mine and they sad it won't work because Dads plan is inactive and the my plan won't pay until it's resolved. This doesn't make sense to me. Why would it not process with my plan just because Dad's plan is inactive? Wouldn't this be the same as my son only having one insurance plan now and run it without the secondary attached? Can someone break this down for me?

I've known for a while that ManyPets was merging with Odie but I (wrongly) assumed that the policies would be largely the same. Odie emailed me yesterday with the new policy and billing summary and my jaw hit the floor. My plan on ManyPets was an annual deductible of $750 and unlimited coverage with 10% co-insurance. The annual premium was $377.04. According to the renewal notice with Odie, there is an annual max payout limit of $20k, deductible of $250 and 10% co-insurance (so an inferior plan) and the annual premium is **$1799.42?!** There is also a billing statement for a Wellness Plan, which I never had on ManyPets. I emailed customer support immediately on Friday and they haven't gotten back. My credit card will be billed on Monday. I'm going to call them first thing Monday morning but I'm pretty concerned. Others who were on ManyPets - are you sticking with Odie? People who have had Odie and used them for claims, what has been your experience? I'm certainly not willing to pay $1800. I have a 7 year old pug and he's healthy/never had any pre-existing issues. But I'm concerned that due to his age, I'll have a hard time getting a decent premium on a new plan.

I submitted a claim on 4/12 for my three year old domestic shorthair cat for a diagnosis of FHS. On the claim I asked for reimbursement of the medicine ( Gabapentin ) and the cost for the emergency visit. I submitted all medical records as requested. Today 4/29 and the claim is still in review. I signed up for Lemonade when my cat was a kitten. He has no pre existing conditions and I take him to all his annual vet appointments. Lemonade is not very communicative. I only received correspondence when I reached out to them asking for an update. They say they are working on processing the claim as quickly as possible. Is this normal turn around time?

I got a MRI done two weeks ago. When I scheduled the appointment the staff told me they didn’t know the amount to be billed since my insurance is a high yield deductible and no copay. They mentioned that if I want to pay out of pocket without using my insurance it would be $500. Fast forward I received a processed claim from Aetna saying that I need to pay $920 and that the X-ray company billed them $1,200. Is there any way to reverse this? I feel scammed by both the X-ray company and Aetna. Can I fight back a processed claim?

Over the last two years my Healthy Paws Insurance premiums have gone up a total of 81%, which has forced me to remove one of pets off of my policy to make it more affordable. One of my pets is a senior, like many of the posts I'm reading here, and he has a heart condition forcing us into daily medical management per his most recent Echocardiogram. Like most of us who are appalled at our premium increases as of late for our senior kiddos, I am proposing we all sign a Petition of Opposite which will require your Name, the state of residency and your current or cancelled policy number. I will be posting this on a few sites in hopes to round up all those who feel their pets and their pockets have been treated unfairly. If anyone would like to recommend the best way to go about collecting this information, please relay that in this post. Thank you for your time, a fellow pet parent!

I have been driving for nearly 25 years. I have nearly a completely clean record but didn't drive for a while up until a couple years ago. I am looking for any suggestions for sources to get the beat rates possible. Are there Any websites anyone knows of that are noteworthy? And trustworthy? I love my agent but I can't keep paying progressive $2000 a year (discounted 200-300 every 6 months for paying in full) for basic state minimum coverage (no collision etc)

I’ve had Pets Best for about a year now for my mixed breed pup (healthy overall, just minor stuff like an ear infection and some stomach issues). I’m paying around $60/month, and every claim I’ve submitted either got denied or barely paid anything. They called one thing a pre-existing condition when it wasn’t even diagnosed until after I signed up. Starting to feel like I’m wasting my money and might be better off just saving that monthly premium myself. Has anyone here actually had a dog insurance plan that helped when you needed it? Open to switching if there’s a better option but I’m kinda losing hope tbh.

Question about marketplace insurance vs. private. My husband and I are partners in our own business so we got on a family marketplace plan this year after much due diligence on my part to ensure our providers were in network. We found out the hard way that just because some hospitals in a health network are covered, doesn't mean all are covered. This was upsetting to us because having both worked for the large health networks around us, we know where you go for procedures matters. I did a search of all marketplace plans for the 2 hospitals we prefer and NONE are in network. I got an email recently from an insurance broker who quoted me a price for Anthem BCBS that is a few hundred dollars cheaper a month than our marketplace plan including subsidies. There is a small deductible that I don't have with the marketplace plan and some limits on how often we can utilize a service but this would be OK with me if we could go to the hospitals we prefer. I'm also worried the healthcare subsidies will go away next year so finding a cheaper plan puts me a bit at ease. Is there anything I need to be super aware of with private plans? I'm curious how a private plan could be cheaper than a marketplace plan which is what is making me wonder if it's too good to be true. Thanks for any insight you can give!