Don’t Surprise Me

When an insurance company sought to use a hidden paragraph of fine print to reduce the amount of payments to be made under its policy, Quadrino Schwartz fought back.  The people victimized by this practice were completely surprised by the hidden paragraph, not having been told about it by the insurance company or their insurance broker.  No law firm in the United States had ever even tried to invalidate the little known paragraph in the insurance policy, but Quadrino Schwartz convinced the court that the paragraph was illegally hidden in the wrong spot in the insurance policy.  Thus, the insurance company was banned from using the paragraph to reduce the payments made under the policy.   The decision was the first of its kind in the country, and Quadrino Schwartz intends to obtain relief on behalf of the victims of other insurance companies who have used the same "surprise" tactic.