October 15, 2021
A Seattle federal court dismissed a lawsuit alleging Microsoft and a Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliate unlawfully failed to cover the cost of an employee's daughter's inpatient mental health and substance abuse treatment, saying the tech company's health plan had discretion to decide what care was necessary.
September 21, 2021
A Microsoft employee suing the tech company and health insurer Premera Blue Cross for failing to cover her daughter's inpatient mental health and substance use treatment urged a Seattle federal court not to toss her case, arguing residential care was a medical necessity.
June 23, 2020
A Microsoft employee's daughter has hit the tech giant and Premera Blue Cross with an Employee Retirement Income Security Act suit claiming that the companies wrongly denied coverage for most of her stay at a Utah facility for mental health and substance use treatment.