She was arrested and charged with threatening to conduct an act of terrorism. A Florida woman has been charged with threatening her health insurance provider during a phone conversation after police say she uttered the same words found on the bullet casings used in the killing of an insurance executive in New York.
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The killing of a health care executive kicked off a firestorm of anger at a troubled system. The CEO of UnitedHealth responds to the concerns.
About three years ago, a UnitedHealth medical director for utilization management (we’ll call him KW) began to suspect that a popular spine surgeon was misrepresenting patient MRIs to make the case that they needed unnecessary spinal fusion surgery in lieu of a less invasive discectomy procedure. Specifically, KW, a board-certified orthopedic surgeon, believed the surgeon…
A Florida woman broke down in tears after learning she could be jailed for 15 years after she allegedly threatened a health insurance company over a denied claim. Briana Boston, 42, buried her face in her hands during her hearing after hearing Assistant State Attorney Matthew Hendry ask the court for house arrest with GPS…
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana | Official website A motor vehicle accident has led to a legal battle in the Eastern District of Louisiana, where an individual is seeking justice for injuries and damages sustained. Taylor R. Kiern filed a complaint on December 6, 2024, against State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance…
A former employee has filed a lawsuit alleging racial discrimination against his previous employer, a health insurance agency. Eric Nicastro lodged the complaint in the Circuit Court of the 15th Judicial Circuit in Palm Beach County, Florida, on December 4, 2024, targeting Health Insurance King Agency, LLC.
After an injunction by a federal court in North Dakota, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals participants were blocked from accessing the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance marketplace in 19 states. But North Carolina is not one of them. That’s because North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein did not join the lawsuit brought by 19 attorneys […]
Andrea Deutsch, the mayor of Narberth, Pennsylvania, and the owner of a pet store in town, doesn’t get health care coverage through either of her jobs. Instead, she is enrolled in a plan she purchased on Pennie, Pennsylvania’s health insurance exchange. Deutsch, who has been mayor since 2018, is paid $1 per year for the […]
A Florida woman was arrested after she allegedly called her health insurance company and told them "delay, deny, depose," the words associated with the suspect in the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting, according to police.
Gabe Brown recently moved to UPMC Mercy after his wife and state Sen. Dan Laughlin's staff successfully fought insurance denial.
On Wednesday, the Bank of Canada cut its key benchmark rate by 50bps. They have now cut by 150 bps in 2024, compared to what will likely be 100 bps for the Fed after next week’s meeting. Unlike the Fed, Canada’s central bank is fighting off a recession. Canadian real GDP for the last four…
Germany’s central bank on Friday sharply downgraded its growth forecasts for next year and 2026, predicting a prolonged period of weakness for Europe’s biggest economy as it battles multiple headwinds.
Anthem posts message to its website that Summa Health seeks cost increases outpacing inflation. Summa officials question insurer's calculations.
The program as pitched to county commissioners this week would provide private insurance for up to 330,000 people in a coverage gap.
Ohio House lawmakers failed to sneak in a controversial provision that would prevent local police officers from working with federal law enforcement, including accessing their databases, when combatting gun crime, to a bill about liability insurance.
Luigi Mangione, the Ivy League graduate accused of fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, was never a client of the medical insurance company, a senior NYPD official said on Thursday. Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny told NBC that Mangione likely targeted Thompson because of UnitedHealthcare’s size and influence in the healthcare industry.
Farmers Insurance Group, the second largest home insurer in California, plans to begin writing more homeowners policies in anticipation of reforms coming in 2025.. But in a Wednesday release, Behram Dinshaw, Farmers Insurance's president of personal lines, said the company recognized that California's insurance market had improved. State Farm, the other…
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.. A few years ago, West Virginia, which has the highest obesity rate in the nation, quietly began a small and unusual pilot program that would touch hundreds of lives: It started covering obesity drugs for state employees— even as many other insurers balked at what they considered…
The 11th- hour push has drawn sharp rebukes from President-elect Donald Trump and congressional Republicans, who have signaled they plan to unwind any newly issued regulations- along with a vast set of older Biden-era programs- shortly after they assume power in late January. "I don't think it makes sense for the CFPB to be a dead fish," Chopra said at a…
