A federal class action claims State Farm Auto Insurance has “a carefully developed strategy to make the victims [of auto accidents] look like they are trying to defraud the insurers,” one of whose factors is “whether the provider’s patients “are from an immigrant community.”
Read moreThe South Broward Hospital District dba Memorial Healthcare System claims Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida owes it “tens of millions of dollars” for medical services, in Broward County Court.
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Walloping access rights to free birth control in America, the Supreme Court on Wednesday endorsed Trump-ordered exemptions that would let employers deny coverage if they assert moral objections.
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A rule that critics say imposes onerous restrictions on health insurance plans that cover abortion will likely be struck down, a federal judge signaled Thursday after finding the Trump administration lacks an adequate justification for the new requirements.
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Fifteen minor league baseball teams filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against insurance companies they say won’t pay for coronavirus-related business interruption claims.
Read moreAmTrust Financial Services and its former CFO Ronald E. Pipoly Jr. will pay $10.5 million for failing to disclose material facts about how the company estimated its insurance losses and reserves, the SEC said.
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In a blow to 300,000 women with faulty French breast implants, the EU’s highest court ruled Thursday that patients who underwent surgery outside of France cannot seek compensation.
Read moreThe Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday proposed a $225 million fine, its largest ever, against two health insurance telemarketers for spamming people with 1 billion robocalls using fake phone numbers.
Read moreA class of Roman Catholic groups claim in a federal summons with notice that New York effectively denied their exemption from the government mandate to cover the insurance costs for abortion procedures by passing off eligibility determinations to a private health plan.
Read moreThe 43 coronavirus-related lawsuits filed Friday in courts covered by Courthouse News bring the total to 1,491 such lawsuits since April 1; as usual, claims against insurers and government were the most numerous.
Read morePhiladelphia Indemnity Insurance Co. sued Megalomedia, et al., in federal court, claiming it has no duty to defend it in 10 lawsuits from people who appeared on its “reality” show, “My 600-lb. Life.”
Read moreAn Alabama family whose home was overrun by venomous brown recluse spiders cannot revive their lawsuit against the insurance company that denied their claim for property damages, an 11th Circuit panel ruled.
Read moreThe London Bridge Resort, on the Arizona-California border, sued Illinois Union Insurance in federal court for refusing to indemnify it for business losses during the Covid-19 pandemic, by calling the pandemic an excluded “pollution condition.”
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Dialing in from the hospital, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made no secret of her disapproval of the government Wednesday for standing in the way of women’s access to free birth control.
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The Supreme Court will hear arguments over the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate during its next term. WASHINGTON (CN) —
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President Donald Trump’s proclamation barring would-be immigrants from obtaining visas unless they have health insurance will remain blocked pending litigation, a divided Ninth Circuit panel ruled Monday.
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Covid-19 could have stamped a person “uninsurable” if not for the Affordable Care Act. The ban on insurers using preexisting conditions to deny coverage is a key part of the Obama-era law that the Trump administration still seeks to overturn.
Read moreA federal class action accuses Allstate insurance of keeping a “suckers list” based on an algorithm on “how much premium each policyholder is willing to tolerate being charged and still remain an Allstate customer.”
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As states gear up to reopen, a poll finds a potential obstacle to controlling the coronavirus: nearly 1 in 10 adults say cost would keep them from seeking help if they thought they were infected.
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