As if you needed another reason to hate insurance companies:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

It was a warm summer day, and Jim Ridler was riding his motorcycle on a southwestern Minnesota highway when an oncoming car swerved into his lane.

With broken bones in his neck, collarbone, pelvis, ribs and legs, Ridler spent seven months in the hospital and endured 18 surgeries.

The one comfort: His future would be secured with a $450,000 insurance settlement. But his health plan stepped in and took 90 percent of it to recoup what it paid to cover his medical bills.

State lawmakers are trying to make sure that doesn't happen to money they want to give to survivors of the Interstate 35W bridge collapse.
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Read all about it at

http://www.startribune.com/local/14624057.html