Posts tagged insurance

• Health Net Settles Cancellation Cases

  Todd Slaughter | September 16, 2008 2:31 PM | 0 CommentsRedding, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  California based Health Net Inc., one of the nation's largest publicly traded managed health care companies, agreed Friday to pay approximately $25 million to settle claims of unfair claims handling...

• Ever Mounting Evidence that Health Insurers Defy and Defeat Health Care Decision Makers

  Todd Slaughter | August 27, 2008 12:36 PM | 0 CommentsRedding, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  In recent years, we have observed a growing trend of insurance carriers making bolder and bolder denials of coverage for medical expenses in cases involving third party caused injuries. These...

• Blue Cross of California Pays $11.8 to Settle Improper Cancelation Suit

  Todd Slaughter | July 16, 2008 1:40 PM | 0 CommentsRedding, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  It was only seven moths ago that the heart wrenching story of 17-year-old Nataline Sarkysian hit the national media and stirred a potential patient revolt. Nataline was critically ill and required a...

• Patient Dumping

  Paul Kiesel | May 11, 2008 6:25 PM | 0 CommentsLos Angeles, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  As if access to medical care isn't difficult enough hospitals have been accused of patient dumping. A hospital in Costa Mesa California is accused of transporting a mentally ill patient over 40...

• Fatal Accident Is A Sad Reminder About The Need To Have Adequate Insurance

  Susan Devine | April 24, 2008 1:14 PM | 0 CommentsSan Luis Obispo, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A fatal accident occurred early in the morning on Highway 101 in San Luis Obispo when four young men were returning home from a concert in Santa Cruz. Preliminary details about the accident can be...

• California Orders Reinstatement and Investigation by Health Insurers

  Nigel Whitehead | April 18, 2008 1:16 PM | 0 CommentsSan Luis Obispo, CA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Yesterday, the California Department of Managed Health Care ordered that the health insurance policies of 26 people whose policies had been rescinded be reinstated. Cindy Ehnes, the director of DMHC...