USAA Insureds File Class Action Lawsuit Complaint Against USAA Over Automobile Insurance Personal Injury Protection PIP & Med Pay Insurance Coverage.
A class action lawsuit has reportedly been filed against United Service Automobile Association, USAA General Agency, Inc., USAA Insurance Agency, USAA Casualty Insurance Company and USAA General Indemnity Company (“USAA” or “Defendants”) in the Superior Court of the State of Washington in and for the county of King (styled Tara Cote v. United Service Automobile Association, USAA General Agency, Inc., USAA Insurance Agency, USAA Casualty Insurance Company and USAA General Indemnity Company. Class Action Case No. 12-2-12637-2 KNT) alleging, among other things, that USAA is required by law to provide Personal Injury Protection PIP and/or Med Pay coverage in their automobile insurance policies that would pay insured’s reasonable and necessary medical and hospital benefits up to $10,000 from a covered automobile accident, but that USAA allegedly deprived insureds of their full PIP medical benefits by denying coverage retroactively and/or by suspending medical payment until after completion of an independent medical exam IME or a records review or peer review, according to the USAA Automobile Insurance Personal Injury Protection PIP & Med Pay Coverage class action lawsuit complaint.
The putative USAA Automobile Insurance Personal Injury Protection PIP & Med Pay Coverage class consists of all insureds, as defined in the Personal Injury Protection and Med Pay coverage portions of USAA’s policies and all third party beneficiaries of such coverage, issued in the state of Washington with respect to whom USAA: (a) retroactively disallowed coverage for medical expenses more than thirty (30) days after it received the bill for the insured’s care and (b) suspended and/or withheld payments for necessary treatment pending a future evaluation by USAA’s independent medical examiners.
The USAA Automobile Insurance Personal Injury Protection PIP & Med Pay Coverage class action lawsuit complaint reportedly asserts claims for, among other things, alleged declaratory judgment and alleged violations of the Washington Consumer Protection Act, breach of contract and damages.
The USAA Automobile Insurance Personal Injury Protection PIP & Med Pay Coverage class action lawsuit complaint reportedly seeks, among other things, actual damages, statutory damages, restitution, punitive damages, declaratory and injunctive relief, and attorneys’ fees and costs.
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