Blue Cross To Georgia Court: Insurance Fraud Case Implicates Filed-Rate Doctrine

Mealey's (June 4, 2021, 2:01 PM EDT) -- ATLANTA — Even when dressing up a case as one involving improper denial of health insurance coverage, plaintiffs cannot avoid the conclusion that the damages they seek for alleged misrepresentations about network coverage implicate an agency-approved rate and would turn the courts into “green-eyeshaded insurance ratemakers,” an insurer tells the Georgia Court of Appeals in a May 19 brief....