Federal Judge Sanctions Insurer Over Incorrect Administrative Exhaustion Argument

(August 24, 2018, 1:33 PM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — Attorneys’ failure to investigate whether their health insurance client’s administrative appeals process applied to a contracted provider prior to arguing that the plaintiff failed to exhaust such remedies warrants imposing sanctions, a federal judge in California held Aug. 22 (Prime Healthcare Services Inc. v. Humana Insurance Co., et al., No. 16-1097, C.D. Calif.)....

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