Two News Items With A Common Cause

I came across two separate news items today, from different states, each one having something interesting in common with the other.

In Arizona, a bill has been introduced to allow workers to file complaints with the Industrial Commission over perceived unfair claim processing practices or bad faith.  The fines and penalties in the bill seem modest, though, in comparison with the second story.

In Nebraska, a worker has been awarded $25 million over the alleged bad faith claims handling of an insurer, American Interstate Insurance.  Which is considerably more than what is anticipated under the proposed Arizona bill.

Just an interesting coincidence, these two stories popping up at about the same time. But they both illustrate a problem that is not, I sadly suspect, terribly uncommon.