David Wit, et al v. United Behavioral Health

  1. June 24, 2022

    Patients Slam UnitedHealth's Bid To Keep 9th Circ. Order Alive

    UnitedHealth Group Inc. relied on contradictory arguments in its defense of the Ninth Circuit's decision unraveling court orders requiring the insurer's subsidiary to reprocess thousands of claims for mental health and substance use disorder treatment, plan participants have argued, doubling down on imploring the appeals court to revisit its ruling.

  2. June 17, 2022

    UnitedHealth Pans 'Hyperbolic' Redo Bid In ERISA Appeal

    UnitedHealth Group's behavioral care unit told the Ninth Circuit not to reconsider blocking lower court orders requiring it to reprocess a slew of claims for mental health and substance use disorder treatment, saying plan participants have exaggerated the ruling's impact.

  3. May 06, 2022

    ​​​​​​​UnitedHealth Patients Want Redo In ERISA Reprocessing Case

    UnitedHealth Group Inc. plan participants urged the Ninth Circuit to reconsider blocking a pair of California federal court orders requiring the insurer's subsidiary to reprocess claims for mental health and substance use disorder treatments, arguing that the circuit panel's ruling conflicts with state law and U.S. Supreme Court precedent.

  4. March 25, 2022

    9th Circ. ERISA Ruling Backs Latitude For Plan Administrators

    The Ninth Circuit's reversal of a lower court decision that would have required UnitedHealth Group Inc.'s behavioral health unit to reprocess thousands of mental health and substance use disorder treatment claims reined in what some attorneys viewed as an expansion of the type of remedies available under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.

  5. March 22, 2022

    9th Circ. Reverses Class Win In UnitedHealth ERISA Case

    The Ninth Circuit on Tuesday unraveled a pair of major California federal court orders requiring UnitedHealth Group Inc.'s behavioral health unit to reprocess thousands of claims for substance abuse and mental health treatments and finding its coverage guidelines were improper, determining the insurer's claim denials were reasonable.

  6. July 30, 2021

    UnitedHealth Rule Rewrite Evinces Shift In Mental Health Care

    A UnitedHealth Group unit is almost two years into a court-ordered process of altering how it approaches mental health and substance abuse care, and attorneys say it likely won't be the only insurer facing a reckoning amid a national sea change on support for such treatment.