Big insurers worst at hitting medical payment deadlines
Treating customers fairly and insurer relationships with medical reporting organisations were discussed at the first claims Club meeting of 2008, as Jonathan Swift writes
The insurers with the worst record for paying medical reporting organisations were named at last week's claims club meeting, with many larger players coming out worse than their niche counterparts.
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