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Managed Care
April 2002 |
Ruling Makes Class-Action Suit More Plausible The idea of a class-action lawsuit against HMOs was boosted by a recent decision in a federal court in Florida. Meanwhile, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association has sounded the alarm that efforts to increase health plan liability may be launched in at least eight states...   |
Managed Care
February 2005 |
Class-Action Suit By 600,000 Docs Heading To Court Discusses a lawsuit filed by about 600,000 physicians against some of the biggest health plans in the country: Humana, PacifiCare, UnitedHealthcare, WellPoint, Anthem, and Health Net. Aetna and Cigna were named but settled out of court. |
Entrepreneur
August 2005
Jane Easter Bahls |
Action Sacked A new law aims to protect you from class-action suits. Under the new law, all class-action lawsuits with plaintiffs from more than one state will have to be filed in federal courts, which tend to be less sympathetic than state courts to these suits. |
Managed Care
January 2002
Donald Wilcox & Stephanie Kanwit |
Debating RICO Suits vs. Health Plans States Failed To Protect Docs From Insurers... Patients Will Suffer; Greedy Lawyers to Blame... |
Managed Care
May 2005
Michael S. Victoroff |
Class Action Suit: Windfall or Just Wind? Is using the tort system and class action lawsuits the best way to solve problems between business professionals? That and $54.37 can go toward the creation of a foundation to bring about meaningful organizational change. |
BusinessWeek
June 22, 2011
Greg Stohr |
Wal-Mart Case: Another Loss for Trial Lawyers The Supreme Court's ruling is the latest in a series of decisions that make it clear the justices aim to curb mass litigation. |
Managed Care
July 2006 |
UnitedHealth Ruling Cites Flaws in System The judge who recently ruled in favor of UnitedHealth Group in a massive class-action suit that has been dragging through the courts since 1999, presented the state of the country's health coverage system as a somewhat dichotomous mess. |
Entrepreneur
March 2005
Jane Easter Bahls |
Lay Down the Law Business owners afraid of losing big in a lawsuit should feel safer: A bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in September takes aim at nuisance lawsuits and class-action suits. |
CFO
March 1, 2003
Joan Urdang |
Return to Sender? Companies often fail to collect on class-action lawsuits. |
BusinessWeek
March 21, 2005
Aaron Bernstein |
Wal-Mart vs. Class Actions The retail giant's novel defense in a massive sex discrimination suit could rewrite the playbook for all corporate class-action suits. |
Registered Rep.
September 8, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
Merrill Discrimination Suit Moves Forward After Failed Settlement Talks The racial-discrimination suit against Merrill Lynch is under way again after settlement talks between African-American brokers and the firm came to a halt in early June. |
Inc.
August 2003
Anne Marie Borrego |
Fairer Class Action Small-business lobbies are hailing a bill that will make it harder to win a class-action lawsuit. |
ifeminists
June 30, 2004
Wendy McElroy |
Jackpot Justice, the Wal-Mart Case No one knows how to definitively resolve the abuses and dangers of class action suits without denying the underdog access to the courts. |
Registered Rep.
March 28, 2011
Diana Britton |
Securities America Nears Resolution With Plaintiffs Securities America has made "substantial progress" in its mediation with plaintiffs' attorneys involved in class action suits against the independent broker/dealer. |
BusinessWeek
March 31, 2011
Peter Waldman |
Aetna's Rx for High Doctor Fees: Lawsuits Aetna's legal campaign against expensive out-of-network charges is just the latest attempt by insurers to restrain soaring health costs. |
BusinessWeek
July 30, 2007 |
Another Risk Factor For Merck Plaintiffs' lawyers are salivating over evidence they hope could support their argument that even patients who used the painkiller for short periods were in danger. |
Registered Rep.
May 22, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
Brokers Ring Up Another Big Overtime-Pay Settlement Citigroup has agreed to pay a up to $98 million, a record-breaking figure, to past and present advisors to settle their overtime-pay claims. |
Managed Care
July 2002
John A. Marcille |
Capitation as Whipping Boy: Court Takes on Touchy Issue If plans are to keep coverage decisions reasonable and fair, they'll need tools that involve physicians and patients in the decision-making process. Capitation is one of those. |
PC World
November 2, 2001
Scarlet Pruitt |
Microsoft, Justice Department Reach a Settlement Judge still must approve deal to end antitrust case; states are asking for more time to review the agreement... |
InternetNews
November 13, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
Deadline Extended in California MS Settlement Businesses and consumers now have until January 8, 2005 to file claims in the state of California's antitrust settlement with Microsoft. |
The Motley Fool
September 24, 2007
Rich Duprey |
Lerach's Punishment Worse Than None at All William Lerach makes a plea agreement in his fraud case stemming from bogus class-action lawsuits. Investors, take note how this may have affected you. |
The Motley Fool
September 6, 2010
Jesse Emspak |
ADC Looks to Settle Suits Ahead of Tyco Sale The telecommunications gear provider is hoping to clear legal hurdles ahead of its sale. |
InternetNews
September 25, 2009 |
Judge's Order Keeps Google Books in Limbo New York judge postpones fairness hearing for controversial settlement agreement in response to DoJ objections. |
InternetNews
December 23, 2009
Kenneth Corbin |
Comcast Will Pay to End P2P Suit But the issue only touches the larger debate surrounding network neutrality. |
BusinessWeek
March 24, 2011
Greg Stohr |
Wal-Mart Faces the Big Box of Bias Suits A Supreme Court review of a massive gender discrimination suit against Wal-Mart could usher in new rules regarding class actions. |
Managed Care
November 1999 |
U.S. Supreme Court To Hear Suit Against HMOs Over Incentives Can HMOs be sued for the practice of offering bonuses to physicians who help them keep the cost of care down?... |
The Motley Fool
February 18, 2004
Bill Mann |
Foreign Threats to U.S. Profits Watch out if overseas courts decide to start targeting U.S. firms. For the first time, a U.S. tobacco company is facing a big lawsuit from overseas, as an Israeli health provider is seeking some $1.7 billion in damages. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2003
David A. Geracioti |
In the Crosshairs An army of lawyers are about ready to file suits on behalf of aggrieved retail investors who claim to have lost money because of the conflict-of-interest scandal. |
InternetNews
September 28, 2006
Clint Boulton |
PayPal Settles Suits For $5.2M Online payment specialist PayPal agreed to pay $5.2 million to settle two class-action suits and pledged to better explain how it protects users' financial data. |
Managed Care
May 2000 |
Texas-Aetna Incentives Settlement Worries Some Capitated Physicians If the Texas deal ignites a trend away from the use of incentives to keep utilization down, then some capitated physicians worry it will put them in a tight spot. |
Salon.com
May 24, 2002
Megan McArdle |
Can we sue our own fat asses off? Flush from their victory against Big Tobacco, activists are now gunning for the purveyors of junk food. |
CFO
October 1, 2008
Alix Stuart |
The Jury's Out A reversal of a big jury award to shareholders of Apollo Group lends support to critics of proposed revisions to FAS 5. |
The Motley Fool
June 28, 2005
Tom Taulli |
Milberg Weiss -- No Clothes? The law firm claims its mission is to protect investors. Well, the U.S. Justice Department appears to have a less optimistic view of Milberg Weiss. |
Registered Rep.
March 23, 2006
Kevin Burke |
Investment Fraud Suit Brought By Brokers Blocked By The Supremes It might just have gotten harder to sue your firm and win money for bad research. The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that investors who believe they were duped into holding stocks by a brokerage firm are precluded from filing large class-action lawsuits in state courts. |
Managed Care
July 2000 |
HMO Incentives Not Grounds for Suit U.S. Supreme Court Rules Unanimously Use of financial incentives in HMOs' contracts with physicians may be losing favor, but it's not about to be declared outright illegal any time soon. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously that patients maynot sue a health plan just because it offers physicians incentives intended to limit health care services. |
BusinessWeek
November 15, 2004
David Henry |
The Long Arm Of Failure Lawyers are aggressively suing on behalf of bankrupt companies to recoup money paid to creditors. |
Salon.com
June 13, 2000
David McGuire |
Immune from liability The Supreme Court blocks a potentially important legal path for people who want to sue HMOs. Now, the spotlight is on Congress. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2006
Halah Touryalai |
Overtime Settlements Stacking Up Citigroup agreed in mid-May to pay a record $98 million to past and present advisors to settle their overtime-pay claims. It's the fourth major financial firm to settle a class-action suit regarding overtime pay within the past 10 months. |
The Motley Fool
January 28, 2008
Dan Caplinger |
Travel Abroad? Get Back Some Money It's time for credit card companies to pay you back. The result of a recent suit was a settlement that could get you some money back if you've paid currency-conversion fees while traveling in a foreign country between 1996 and 2006. |
Information Today
January 2007
George H. Pike |
Legal Update: Where the Lawsuits Are Updates on lengthy search-related lawsuits involving Google and Microsoft. |
CFO
August 1, 2006
Lori Calabro |
Problem Solvent Recent litigation against Polar Beverages and other beverage makers worries some CFOs and corporate attorneys. They foresee a flood tide of benzene suits, including cases that have nothing to do with occupational exposure. |
The Motley Fool
September 24, 2008
Brian Orelli |
Health Insurer Lets Outsiders Decide Aetna announces that it'll allow customers with individual health plans to ask for an independent external review before Aetna cancels their policy. |
The Motley Fool
February 9, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
Aexcellence From Aetna Low medical costs and good cash flow make this stock worth watching. |
InternetNews
June 3, 2005
Tim Gray |
Apple Settles iPod Battery Claim Apple has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit over the rechargeable battery in its popular iPod. |
Salon.com
July 17, 2001
Jake Tapper |
The healthcare disaster that wasn't When Texas passed its patients' bill of rights law, George W. Bush warned that it would unleash a plague of lawyers and drive up health costs. It didn't... |
Managed Care
August 2000
Mark D. Abruzzo, J.D. |
Supreme Court Ruling Encourages Greater Awareness Among Patients To you and me, the court's holding in Pegram means that patients cannot sue HMOs under ERISA for giving doctors financial incentives to hold down costs. However, as is typical with many court decisions, this makes one wonder whether it doesn't take on a much greater meaning. |
The Motley Fool
July 28, 2005
Stephen D. Simpson |
Aetna's Affirmation Aetna posts solid results as health-care costs grow moderately. The health care insurer's relative valuation would seem to at least make it worth a second look for now. |
Registered Rep.
February 1, 2003
Jerry L. Reiter |
The Blame Game It's hard to say when the targeting of financial advisors for litigation reached its peak -- or whether it has even peaked yet. So how to protect yourself? |
Information Today
September 24, 2009 |
Google Book Search Settlement Hearing to Be Postponed On Sept. 22, the parties involved in the Google Book Search settlement have asked the federal court to postpone the scheduled Oct. 7 hearing to give them time to work with the U.S. Department of Justice so that the parties can amend the Settlement Agreement. |
Managed Care
August 2000
Bob Carlson |
'All Products' Clauses Fade From Physician Contracts All-products provisions in health plan provider contracts are slowly being negotiated, legislated, and regulated out of existence. They are now illegal in at least four states; legislation is pending in several others. |
