Health Net Settles Bad Faith Insurance Lawsuit For $14M
Health Net Inc. has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit for $14 million over its bad faith insurance rescission practices. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of over 800 policyholders whose insurance was rescinded by a Cali ...

Health Net Settles Bad Faith Class Action Lawsuits for $255M
Health Net Inc. has reached a settlement over three bad faith class action insurance lawsuits which alleged that the insurer under-reimbursed members due to a faulty computer database program. The insurer will pay approximat ...

Health Net Sued By Los Angeles City Attorney for Illegal Business Practices
Los Angeles California City Attorney, Rocky Delgadillo, announced that his office has filed a civil lawsuit against Health Net for illegal business practices in the state and that he is also launching a criminal probe into th ...

Health Net Slammed With $9M Bad Faith Judgment
Health Net, one of California’s largest for-profit insurers, was ordered to pay $9 million by a private arbitration judge after the company canceled a cancer patient’s coverage while she was in the middle of receiving chemoth ...

Health Net: Why Were 103,000 Doctors’ Social Security Numbers Posted On the Web?
Health Net, Inc., one of California’s largest health care insurers, says that it posted the Social Security numbers of 103,000 doctors in 11 states on its website. The company did not discover the error for over two months – ...

Health Net of California Fined $1M for Lying To State
California’s Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) fined California insurer Health Net $1 million on November 15th 2007 for failing to disclose information to the DMHC about its program to pay bonuses to employees for resc ...

Health Net Accused of Deceptive Practices in Connecticut
Health Net’s problems seem to be traveling coast to coast. Not long after Health Net of California was fined $1 million by the Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC), Health Net of Connecticut has been accused of fraudulen ...

Health Net Blasted By CT Governor and State Agency
Health Net of Connecticut is being blasted by Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell and the Connecticut Department of Social Services over its insurance practices in the state. The issues in CT come only days after the company w ...

Gardena Woman Sues Health Net for Unfair Cancellation of Health Insurance
A Gardena woman by the name of Patsy Bates is in arbitration with Health Net, a major California health insurer, over the cancellation of her policy during the course of chemotherapy treatments for breast cancer.

Health Net Lawsuit Reveals Bonuses Were Paid to Cancel Policies
In a lawsuit against Health Net, one of California’s largest health insurers, it was revealed that bonuses were paid in part for how many policies were cancelled and how much money was saved as a result.

Healthcare Insurers Continue Bad Faith Practices
Health Net’s recent disclosure about paying bonuses to employees who rescind policies is another example of how insurers are doing whatever they can to avoid paying out benefits.