Creating Wealth Real Estate Investing - Archive Episodes 301-400

Besides cranking out a steady stream of both fiction and non-fiction books, Jason Hartman’s guest for episode #385 of The Creating Wealth Show, Ray Bourhis, is a partner with the law firm of Bourhis & Wolfson in San Francisco, California, specializing in insurance bad-faith litigation. A graduate of Boalt Hall at the University of California, Berkeley, Bourhis has been a court-appointed Special Master overseeing reforms in the California Department of Insurance and was appointed by U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer to her Federal Judicial Selection Advisory Committee. Jason and Mr. Bourhis kick off the show with a discussion about the horrific reality of the ERISA Preemption Rule, which relates to workplace disability insurance. The bottom line is that you have no recourse to sue the insurance company if they decide to deny your claim on a capricious or fraudulent basis. You might think you can sue, and certainly you can, but through the fact that there is no controlling federal law on the topic, and state laws