FSA statistics reveal that nearly 50% of all individual policies lapse within four years and 60% of group pensions lapse within three years. Cazalet also criticizes the manner insurance companies reveal s...
Thereaction to the killingof health insurance executive Brian Thompson is the latest example of the strength of visceral anti-elite sentiment coursing through the country. Even though the motive for the killing of Thompson, 50, is not yet clear, the gunman’s actions have drawn out antagonism t...
The deadly, targeted shooting of UnitedHealthcare's CEO, Brian Thompson, has unleashed a torrent of pent-up anger and resentment toward the insurance industry, renewed calls for reform and reignited a debate over health care in the U.S. Many patients, advocacy groups and industry experts say...
Now that the UnitedHealthcare guy is in custody and the bizarre celebration of murder has died down, I’d like to talk about ERISA (long-term disability benefits) denials and the horrifying lengths insurance providers will go to deny people lifesaving care, while raking in billions in profit...
Now that the UnitedHealthcare guy is in custody and the bizarre celebration of murder has died down, I’d like to talk about ERISA (long-term disability benefits) denials and the horrifying lengths insurance providers will go to deny people lifesaving care, while raking in billions in profit...
In the 1987 casePilot Life Insurance Co. vs. Dedeaux, the Supreme Court ruled that people with employer-provided coverage do not have a right to sue their insurer for damages but rather only for the value of the denied benefit. If the covered person dies, any suit is rendered mo...
“parasitic” health insurance companies and a disdain for corporate greed. He wrote that the U.S. has the most expensive health care system in the world and that the profits of major corporations continue to rise while “our life expectancy” does not, according to the bulletin...
Adam Giesseman, who had a sign that said "Free Luigi" and "Murder for Profit is Terrorism," told ABC News, "Our country is broken." Another waiting spectator, who only gave her first name, Natalie, voiced frustration that the insurance system i...
v o i c e s o f i m o g e n p o o t s a n d d a n i e l b r u e h l “Compelling murder-mystery“ The Sunday Times “Engrossing and unnerving“ The Daily Telegraph “Remarkable“ The Times “A film like a grenade“ ...
Thompson, who grew up on a farm in small-town Iowa, was trained as an accountant. A married father of two high-schoolers, he had worked at the giant UnitedHealth Group for 20 years and became chief executive officer of its insurance arm in 2021. ...