July 08, 2024
The Eighth Circuit affirmed Monday a Minnesota federal judge's decision to toss a suit from patients insured by UnitedHealth Group alleging a billing practice known as cross-plan offsetting violated federal benefits law, finding the lower court properly concluded the patients hadn't sufficiently established injury.
March 14, 2024
An Eighth Circuit panel appeared skeptical Thursday of reviving a suit from patients insured by UnitedHealth Group alleging a billing practice known as cross-plan offsetting violated federal benefits law, with judges questioning whether the patients sufficiently established injury.
March 01, 2024
The Biden administration will urge the Fifth Circuit to preserve preventive services requirements in the Affordable Care Act, the Eighth Circuit will dive into an insurer's payment practices, and the Eleventh Circuit will hear Home Depot workers' bid to revive their 401(k) suit.
August 29, 2023
Participants in UnitedHealth plans urged the Eighth Circuit to revive a suit challenging the insurer's withholding of funds from certain health plans to offset other plans' overpayments to providers, arguing that a trial court incorrectly held they weren't harmed by UnitedHealth's use of plans as "personal piggybanks."