UnitedHealth units ordered to collectively pay $165 million for misleading Massachusetts consumers

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-17 04:46:13 | Updated at 2025-01-21 04:16:42 4 days ago
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UnitedHealth units ordered to collectively pay $165 million for misleading Massachusetts consumers
Reuters ^ | Jan 6, 2024 | Nate Raymond

Posted on 01/16/2025 7:51:48 PM PST by anthropocene_x

Three UnitedHealth-owned (UNH.N), opens new tab insurance companies collectively must pay over $165 million for engaging in widespread deceptive conduct that misled thousands of consumers in Massachusetts into unknowingly buying supplemental health insurance, a state court judge has ruled.

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell on Monday hailed Suffolk County Superior Court Judge Helene Kazanjian's decision, saying it awarded the state the largest civil penalties it has ever recovered under the state's consumer protection law.

Kazanjian, in an order dated Dec. 31, opens new tab, said the penalties were warranted on the grounds that HealthMarkets, which UnitedHealth acquired in 2019, and two of its subsidiaries marketed major medical and supplemental insurance in bundles from 2012 to 2016 in a way that deceived consumers into buying supplemental policies.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: unitedhealth
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To: anthropocene_x

Another reason Luigi is being turned into a folk hero.



To: anthropocene_x

So, who got the money? The consumers who got ripped off or the state/lawyers?


3 posted on 01/16/2025 8:02:27 PM PST by BipolarBob (I've asked what LGBQT means and have yet to get a STRAIGHT answer.)


To: Bob Wills is still the king

Robin of Kingston never shot the Sheriff of Nottingham.


4 posted on 01/16/2025 8:19:46 PM PST by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)


To: BipolarBob

That was my first thought.

Instead of fining them and pocketing the money, they need to be forced to refund the money to the person’s they deceived.

I’m sick of all of this going to politicians and lawyers while the consumer remains screwed over.


5 posted on 01/16/2025 8:20:09 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)

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