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Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield also agree to restore coverage to patients whose coverage was canceled after they became ill.
HEALTHCARE
City Atty. Rocky Delgadillo says the health insurer made false promises of coverage and hid a scheme to drop sick policyholders. The company denies the allegations.
L.A. city attorney asks Blue Cross to substantiate claims that it has revised its rescission practices.
The punitive damage award is the first of its kind and has prompted the giant medical insurer to scrap practices that have recently come under fire.
INSURANCE
The city attorney says Health Net defrauded policyholders by dropping patients who needed costly care.
Physicians object to a letter from Blue Cross seeking information that could lead to policy cancellations.
After years of paying for a badly disabled boy's nursing care, the insurer said he no longer needed it. His parents hired a lawyer.
One of the state's largest health insurers set goals and paid bonuses based in part on how many individual policyholders were dropped and how much money was saved.
A state agency drafting the regulations says the variety of policies is slowing the process.
The health plan comes under fire during a state regulatory hearing. The company says members are well served.
INSURANCE
Regulators want to see whether the healthcare firm is adhering to an accord with California.
HEALTHCARE
BC Life mishandled more than half the cases reviewed by the state. Critics say regulators have not done enough.
The State
Blue Cross of California agreed Thursday to stop canceling individual health coverage unless it can show policyholder deception -- a major shift by the state's largest health insurer that could lead to sweeping industrywide changes.
INSURANCE
An appeals court will weigh Blue Shield's retroactive cancellation of a car-crash patient.
HEALTHCARE
The largest organizations representing California physicians and hospitals joined a lawsuit against Blue Cross of California on Thursday, accusing the state's largest health plan of illegally and routinely refusing to pay them millions of dollars for medical care provided to enrollees whose policies were later canceled.
The health insurer 'routinely' dropped the policies of pregnant or ill clients, an agency finds. The company disputes the charge.
At issue is the insurer's leaving patients without coverage after they have been hospitalized.
The state's top HMO regulator calls for outside oversight of insurers' attempts to drop policyholders.
The move comes amid a growing controversy over the insurance industry's cancellation of individual policies for medical coverage.
The California Medical Assn. wants to join patients in a dispute over canceled policies.
A state agency plans a move that would make it harder for insurers to drop sick policyholders.
Regulators' action in a kidney patient's case comes as scrutiny over cancellations grows.
The health insurer, accused of dumping sick policyholders, says it will alter procedures.
The healthcare insurer allegedly refused to pay hospitals after authorizing treatments.
California and the West
Customers of Blue Cross and Blue Shield say they were dumped after incurring medical costs.
California regulators said Wednesday that they would investigate accusations by 10 patients that Blue Cross has a system to retroactively cancel health coverage for members after they need expensive medical care.
Ten plaintiffs say the health insurer illegally dropped them after they became seriously ill.