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Business Insurance, September, 2002
Judge OKs docs' HMO class action A federal judge has granted class-action status to litigation against several major health maintenance organizations that charges fraudulent denial of payments to physicians. Judge Federico Molina of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in Miami also denied class-action status to a lawsuit filed on behalf of patients against the HMOs.
Judge Molina ruled that those plaintiffs' claims were too different to constitute a class. P/C insurers' first-half profits rise 66% U.S. property/casualty insurers reported a combined $4.6 billion in profits for the first half of 2002, a 66.4% increase over the same period in 2001, according to a survey by the Insurance Services Office Inc. and the National Assn. of...
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