Justices Reject Insurers’ Appeal on Doctors’ Suit
UnitedHealth Group Inc., Humana Inc. and other health insurers lost a U.S. Supreme Court bid to stop a class-action lawsuit that claims 600,000 doctors were underpaid.
The justices made no comment in rejecting an appeal by six managed-care companies. The companies said a federal appeals court was wrong to let the racketeering suit proceed as a class action.
Billions of dollars may be at stake as the case returns to a federal district court in Miami, where a trial is scheduled to start in September. The two insurers that previously settled the doctors’ lawsuit, Aetna Inc. and Cigna Corp., agreed to pay a total of $310 million.
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