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Jay Feinman

@jayfeinman.bsky.social
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Professor Emeritus at Rutgers Law School. Center for Risk and Responsibility crr.rutgers.edu Insurance, Law 101, and other things

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Jay Feinman @jayfeinman.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Hippo-normous crowd in South Jersey
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Moira Birss @moira.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Alarming indeed, but important to remember that for an insurance exec, "uninsurable" means that insurance companies can't make enough profit from it. There are other ways to think about insurance (and risk reduction!) besides that based on profit motive. jacobin.com/2024/11/home...
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Home Insurance Should Be for Safety, Not Profits
The home insurance system is fatally flawed. As climate disasters intensify, it's becoming dangerously clear this system cannot protect us. We need a new model entirely — one focused on safeguarding p...
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Chiara Pappalardo @cpappalardo.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
My wonderful mentor doing her thing. She is the reason I am where I am. A truly incredible leader and human being!! Go @sheilarose.bsky.social, you rock and we are all so lucky to learn from you, your work and ideas 💡⚖️
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Jay Feinman @jayfeinman.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Hard to argue with this: “ Public programs that provide fair and equitable disaster insurance protection, coupled with coordinated and comprehensive disaster risk reduction, are the way forward.”
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Moira Birss @moira.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
And somehow the price of insurance is supposed to signal to people all kinds of things like what retrofits they should make (which assumes they can afford it!) and if/when they should move (as if other considerations didn't come into play, like cost or jobs or even availability of other options). 🤯
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Moira Birss @moira.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
I wrote this thread in the wake of the LA fires, but swap out “flood” for “fire” and all the key points also apply to what’s happening in Texas.
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Jay Feinman @jayfeinman.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Thanks to Chip Merlin for conversation on the Claim Game. Best questions (toward the end): What are biggest misconception about #insurance and biggest truth about insurance? Listen here youtu.be/utv8CIIIv1c
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Jay Feinman @jayfeinman.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Looking forward to conversation with the great Chip Merlin this Thursday. Join us! www.propertyinsurancecoveragelaw.com/blog/delay-d...
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Delay, Deny, Defend: Jay Feinman Returns to Expose Insurance Industry Tactics | Property Insurance Coverage Law Blog
June 15, 2025 This Thursday at 6 p.m. EST, I’ll be joined by one of the most respected voices in insurance law and consumer protection, Professor Jay Feinman, for what
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Jay Feinman @jayfeinman.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
It's a start, but here's something even better crr.rutgers.edu/homeowners-i...
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Homeowners Insurance Coverage Summary - Center for Risk and Responsibility
The Homeowners Insurance Coverage Summary provides a template for a summary of key terms of homeowners insurance policies, in a form accessible to consumers. Homeowners need easily understandable info...
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Jay Feinman @jayfeinman.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Instead of vexing to private sector... Designing Public Solutions content.naic.org/sites/defaul...
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Jay Feinman @jayfeinman.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Now available! content.naic.org/sites/defaul...
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Ry @easyqueenie.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
I know I say this all the time, but here's me attempting to start writing regularly again. Today's posts includes books by @jayfeinman.bsky.social, @vermontgmg.bsky.social, and @drgavinfrancis.bsky.social amongst others. @dreamscape-media.bsky.social #booksky
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Bet You Haven't Read This: Catching Up on My Recent Reading
Going forward, I plan to focus this newsletter more tightly onto books I’m not hearing anyone else talk about, and so those are the books I’ve chosen to include here.
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Jay Feinman @jayfeinman.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
"Incredible work" is an understatement
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Rutgers Law School @law.rutgers.edu · 23/04/2025
In the latest #RutgersLaw newsletter: 📰 "The Docket" - featuring our academic centers ⚖️ A significant legal victory for Rutgers Law Associates ✈️ Highlights from legal studies visits to South Africa and Cuba 💼 Big alumni moves and much more Read all about it: go.rutgers.edu/aprilnewsvol2 #lawsky
cover of digital Rutgers Law School newsletter with small boxes of photos and captions underneath them
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Moira Birss @moira.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
“the profit-seeking of private insurance companies, supported by deregulation…shifts the financial burden of disaster risk away from insurance companies but does very little to shift it away from policyholders, and does next to nothing to reduce the underlying risk to homes from disasters.”
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Rutgers Law School @law.rutgers.edu · 16/04/2025
⚖️ #RutgersLaw's 2025 "The Docket" newsletter is a roundup of the impact and innovation happening at our academic centers in #Camden and #Newark #NewJersey. This is a must-read for anyone passionate about law as a tool for equity, justice, and progress: go.rutgers.edu/rulawcenters... #lawsky
Cover of Rutgers Law School's 'The Docket' digital newsletter with montage of people
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Sharon Cornelissen @sjccorn.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Brand-new report out today: homeowners #insurance premiums went up by 24% in just three years — #homeowners anywhere from Utah to Illinois are impacted. This is not a regional or coastal crisis, but truly a national issue! 🏡💵
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Jay Feinman @jayfeinman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
ANd even those with replacement cost ... www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...
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A broken system is keeping California homes underinsured. Millions are at risk
California's biggest insurance companies are using faulty algorithms and flawed processes to estimate rebuilding costs — leaving millions of homeowners unprotected from disaster.
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Jay Feinman @jayfeinman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
#insurance
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A broken system is keeping California homes underinsured. Millions are at risk
California's biggest insurance companies are using faulty algorithms and flawed processes to estimate rebuilding costs — leaving millions of homeowners unprotected from disaster.
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Carly Fabian @carlyfabian.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
With wildfires raging and insurance markets melting across the country, state regulators should be focused on doing their jobs, not trying to prevent the federal government from conducting surveys and generating solutions. www.theinsurer.com/ti/news/naic...
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NAIC calls for scrapping of FIO among 2025 federal priorities
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has outlined its 2025 federal legislative and regulatory priorities, including a push to eliminate the Federal Insurance Office.
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Carly Fabian @carlyfabian.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Seems like it should be harder to claim you're a "force for stability" when you're dropping homes all over the country... www.lohud.com/story/opinio...
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New York’s insurance carriers provide stability in an unstable world | Opinion
In a world marked by uncertainty, New York's insurance industry remains a steadfast force for stability.
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Ruth Anne Robbins @rarobbins.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
As soon as Con Law profs have to teach legal writing the whole discipline will suddenly become eligible for tenure. Shining a light on the BS of law school hierarchies.
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Jay Feinman @jayfeinman.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Health Insurers Deny 850 Million Claims a Year. The Few Who Appeal Often Win.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
#SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦 #FlyEaglesFly 🦅
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"Fly Eagles Fly" performed by the Prometheus Ukrainian Male Chorus of Philadelphia
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Jay Feinman @jayfeinman.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Can't wait to see it. (Classmate but no relation)
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Jay Feinman @jayfeinman.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
HealthCare.gov insurers denied nearly one out of every five claims in-network services & even larger share (37%) out-of-network www.kff.org/affordable-c... variation across HealthCare.gov
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Welcome to the Health Insurance Marketplace®
Welcome to the Health Insurance Marketplace®. Official government website.
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Jay Feinman @jayfeinman.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
It's not just math and science. It's values, all the way down crr.rutgers.edu/public-solut...
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Public Solutions to Disaster Insurance Market Failures - Center for Risk and Responsibility
Insurance for disasters—floods, wildfires, windstorms, and more—is failing. As a result, the topic of insurance is once again top of mind as residents, first responders, and lawmakers assess billions ...
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Jay Feinman @jayfeinman.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I joined @JeanChatzky on the #HerMoney podcast to talk about health insurance & homeowners insurance--why they're so expensive, how to shop, how to advocate for yourself. Also weirdness of being caught up in the story of murder of United Healthcare CEO lnk.to/N1dZ2e11
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Fixing The Broken Insurance System
This week we’re tackling the complexities of the insurance system with Jay Feinman, author of Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It. We dive into ...
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Jay Feinman @jayfeinman.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Now in (physical) print: Lessons of Legal Reasoning: Explicit, Implicit, and Hidden papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Lessons of Legal Reasoning: Explicit, Implicit, and Hidden
Legal reasoning—“thinking like a lawyer”—is the fundamental skill taught and learned in law school, particularly in the first year of law school. For lawyers, l
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Michael Carrier @mcarrier.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Though the last-minute nature of the filing led to a 3-2 FTC vote, I explain how “right to repair” is not a partisan issue.
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Jay Feinman @jayfeinman.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
The Los Angeles wildfires and other disasters make clear that homeowners insurance is failing. Should the government take over? How? theconversation.com/insurance-fo...
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Insurance for natural disasters is failing homeowners − I don’t have the answers, but I do know the right questions to ask
What are the goals of the insurance? Who is being insured? And how are policyholders and their risks classified?
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Jay Feinman @jayfeinman.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Americans’ rage at insurers goes beyond health coverage – the author of ‘Delay, Deny, Defend’ points to 3 reforms that could help theconversation.com/americans-ra...
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Americans’ rage at insurers goes beyond health coverage – the author of ‘Delay, Deny, Defend’ points to 3 reforms that could help
It’s time to move from rage to regulation, an insurance expert argues.
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Martha Albertson Fineman @mlafineman.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
www.propublica.org/article/ment...
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Insurers Continue to Rely on Doctors Whose Judgments Have Been Criticized by Courts
In dozens of cases ProPublica reviewed, judges found that some doctors working for these companies engaged in “selective readings” of medical evidence and “shut their eyes” to medical opinions opposin...
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Jay Feinman @jayfeinman.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Related pet peeve : Media report record-smashing box office figures for movies, not accounting for inflation or population growth.
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Jay Feinman @jayfeinman.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Now up on SSRN, my paper Recapturing Relational Contract Theory, from KCON XVII, last summer's International Conference on Contracts papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Jay Feinman @jayfeinman.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
And here's some suggestions for how to do it crr.rutgers.edu/homeowners-i...
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Homeowners Insurance Projects - Center for Risk and Responsibility
The Rutgers Center for Risk and Responsibility frequently addresses homeowners insurance in its research, conferences, and policy recommendations. Current homeowners insurance projects include: The Pr...
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Jay Feinman @jayfeinman.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
greenbag.org/v7n3/v7n3_ar... $5 solution
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Jay Feinman @jayfeinman.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Now up, my new article , Lessons of Legal Reasoning: Explicit, Implicit, and Hidden www.alwd.org/lcr-archives...
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Also: My book won't be out for a while, but if you want a glimpse of my findings on inequitable admin burdens that health insurance denials induce, see my recent article in JHPPL, in which I characterize this insurance practice as rationing care by inconvenience. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
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Rationing by Inconvenience: How Insurance Denials Induce Administrative Burdens
Abstract. Context: How do health coverage denials keep care out of reach for American patients by imposing unevenly distributed administrative burdens? This article argues that the process of appealin...
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Jay Feinman @jayfeinman.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Folks have been asking, so: Delay,Deny,Defend is out of stock on Amazon. That's the paperback, which you need to search for on Amazon when it's back. The hardcover is no longer in print. Kindle is at www.amazon.com/Delay-Deny-D... Bulk orders email DeldenPress@gmail.com
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Delay Deny Defend: Why insurance companies don't pay claims and what you can do about it
Delay Deny Defend: Why insurance companies don't pay claims and what you can do about it - Kindle edition by Feinman, Jay. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Delay Deny Defend: Why insurance companies don't pay claims and what you can do about it.
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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 01/12/2024
Reminder: Socialism is the fire department saving your house; capitalism is the insurance company denying your claim.
Socialism is the fire department saving your house; capitalism is the insurance company denying your claim.
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Michael Carrier @mcarrier.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
My latest piece explains how the Biden administration has enforced antitrust law in the pharmaceutical industry, discussing FDA patent listings, merger enforcement, and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).
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Pharmaceutical Antitrust Enforcement in the Biden Administration <br>
<p></p> <p>Pharmaceutical antitrust enforcement in the Biden administration has pushed the boundaries. Previously focused on conduct such as “reverse payment” s
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Jay Feinman @jayfeinman.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Also needs to figure out how to post submitted work in less than forever @ssrn.bsky.social
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Jay Feinman @jayfeinman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
It's International Fraud Awareness Week (really it is). Time for #insurance folks to learn about Misinformation About Insurance Fraud crr.rutgers.edu/misinformati...
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Misinformation About Insurance Fraud - Center for Risk and Responsibility
“Insurance Fraud Costs the U.S. $308.6 Billion Annually,” according to the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud. The Coalition, insurance industry sources, and the news media frequently cite the $308.6 b...
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