Insurers Accused Of Marketing Fraud

OAKLAND, CALIF. (CN) - Healthmarkets owns The Mega Life Health and Insurance Co. and exclusively sells contracts for the National Association for the Self-Employed without disclosing that the three entities are all one, a cancer sufferer claims in Alameda County Court. Barbara Niven says that when she got cancer, the defendants ducked coverage and stuck her with a bill for more than $200,000.