UnitedHealth Group Wins Preliminary Approval of $350 Million Settlement
December 8th, 2009
Bloomberg News (12/4, Glovin) reports that UnitedHealth Group, Inc., “won a judge’s preliminary approval of a $350 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit claiming that the company colluded with others to underpay doctors.” On Dec. 3, “US District Judge Lawrence McKenna unsealed his tentative authorization of the settlement,” according to a spokesman for the American Medical Association, the group that “brought the lawsuit in 2000 with the Missouri Medical Society, the New York State Medical Society, and others.” That lawsuit “sought damages for physicians who it claimed were harmed by the insurer’s long-term use of the database operated [by] Ingenix.” Bloomberg News notes, “The case is The American Medical Association v. United Healthcare, 00-cv-2800, US District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).
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