However, Colonial Penn receives
a significant number of complaints suggesting they have aggressive sales tactics targeting the elderly (some even criticizing Alex Trebek, their spokesman).
For several years, there has been
significant number of complaints against them for, either delaying the process or rejecting claims — a fact J Hari Narayan, chairman of Insurance and Development Regulatory Authority (Irda), is not at all comfortable with.
Not exact matches
There are also
significant cost benefits — for example, a reduction in the
number of back - office customer - relations staffers required to handle a formerly lengthy back - and - forth process for resolving
complaints.
Furthermore, I believe the
numbers are based on actual
complaints and so are likely skewed among certain demographic sectors (e.g. those already wary
of law enforcement) while completely missing a
significant number of incidents lacking official doc - umentation.
Below, in alphabetical order, is a list
of the literary agencies (not all
of them currently active *) about which Writer Beware has received the largest
number of complaints over the years, or which, based on documentation we've collected, we consider to pose the most
significant hazard for writers.
Researchers are now assessing the nocebo and psychogenic hypotheses, finding strong evidence that they are the cause
of the majority
of complaints and are responsible for
significant increases in
numbers and severity
of complaints.
A
number of significant concessions with regard to
complaints handling were also made at the final stages, though one toughening
of the rules was to increase the initial limit for inadequate professional services claims (now at # 15,000) from the proposed # 20,000 to a troubling # 30,000 — with discretion for further future increases by the lord chancellor.