bloomberg-mag.jpgMaybe there is some justice in this world after all. “The Insurance Hoax”–a pure hatchet job in the September 2007 issue of “Bloomberg Markets” that indicted the entire insurance industry for its claims-handling practices–did not win the prestigious Daniel Pearl Award for Investigative Reporting, given out by the New York City Deadline Club–an affiliate of The Society Of Professional Journalists.

When I heard about this flawed and biased piece being nominated (click here for my blog about it on April 3), I filed a formal letter of protest with the Deadline Club, to which I belong. The Insurance Information Institute also wrote to complain about how the industry’s side of the story was given short-shrift, and how numerous errors in the article were pointed out, yet a correction or clarification was never published.

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