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Wit et al v. UnitedHealthcare Insurance Company et al
Case Number:
3:14-cv-02346
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January 06, 2022
Class Attys Get $20M From UnitedHealth ERISA Win
A California federal judge awarded class counsel more than $20 million in fees and costs Wednesday for a victory against a UnitedHealth Group unit that the court ordered to rewrite its rules on substance abuse and mental health care coverage.
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July 30, 2021
UnitedHealth Rule Rewrite Evinces Shift In Mental Health Care
A UnitedHealth Group unit is almost two years into a court-ordered process of altering how it approaches mental health and substance abuse care, and attorneys say it likely won't be the only insurer facing a reckoning amid a national sea change on support for such treatment.
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January 27, 2021
UnitedHealth Unit Must Reprocess 67K Claims, Judge Says
A UnitedHealth Group Inc. unit can't avoid a court order to reprocess roughly 67,000 claims for behavioral health treatment initially evaluated using guidelines that a judge shot down in 2019, a California federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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December 07, 2020
UnitedHealth Unit Should Reprocess Claims Now, Class Says
United Behavioral Health shouldn't be allowed to table its compliance with a court order to reprocess roughly 67,000 insurance claims while appealing its loss in a challenge to its claim decision-making process, a class of UBH patients told a California federal court.
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December 04, 2020
High Court Headlines Biggest ERISA Rulings Of A Busy 2020
One U.S. Supreme Court ruling gave workers plenty of time to sue over benefit issues, while another limited the circumstances under which they could do so. Meanwhile, lower courts questioned single-stock funds' appropriateness for 401(k) plans and sharply rebuked health insurers who use improper guidelines to deny treatment requests. Here, Law360 looks at the five biggest benefits decisions of 2020.
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December 03, 2020
UnitedHealth Unit Appeals Loss In Treatment Guidelines Case
UnitedHealth Group Inc.'s behavioral health unit appealed its loss in a blockbuster case over coverage guidelines to the Ninth Circuit on Thursday, looking to nix orders that its guidelines were improper and that it must reprocess roughly 67,000 claims for behavioral health treatments administered using the guidelines.
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November 25, 2020
UnitedHealth Fights 'Game-Changer' ERISA Class Action Loss
United Behavioral Health is fighting a first-of-its-kind court order to reprocess 67,000 claims after a judge nixed the insurer's guidelines for covering behavioral health treatment, in a case that has huge implications for the future of Employee Retirement Income Security Act class actions over treatment denials.
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November 03, 2020
UnitedHealth Ordered To Reprocess 50K Claims In ERISA Suit
A UnitedHealth Group Inc. subsidiary must reprocess insurance claims on behalf of a certified class of more than 50,000 plan holders, a California magistrate judge ordered on Tuesday, after finding it violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act by denying coverage for mental health and substance abuse treatment.
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May 06, 2019
UnitedHealth Seeks To Scuttle 50,000-Member ERISA Class
United Behavioral Health has asked a California federal judge to break up the 50,000-member class of patients suing it over mental health and substance abuse treatment coverage guidelines that were found to violate the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
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March 05, 2019
Judge Rips UnitedHealth's Shortsighted Behavioral Care Rules
A UnitedHealth Group unit's internal guidelines for mental health and substance abuse coverage ignored generally accepted standards of care and focused on "crisis stabilization" while leaving patients stranded over the long term, a California federal magistrate judge said Tuesday.