Coverage Denied

After years of paying for a badly disabled boy’s nursing care, the insurer said he no longer needed it. His parents hired a lawyer.

Patients dropped by Blue Shield may sue as a class, a panel says.

One of the state’s largest health insurers set goals and paid bonuses based in part on how many individual policyholders were dropped and how much money was saved.

Blue Cross of California agreed Thursday to stop canceling individual health coverage unless it can show policyholder deception -- a major shift by the state’s largest health insurer that could lead to sweeping industrywide changes.

An appeals court will weigh Blue Shield’s retroactive cancellation of a car-crash patient.

California’s top insurance regulator has accused Blue Shield, one of the state’s largest health plans, of 1,262 violations of claims-handling laws and regulations that resulted in more than 200 people losing their medical coverage.

Group plans are being dropped or becoming unaffordable to many.

The health insurer ‘routinely’ dropped the policies of pregnant or ill clients, an agency finds. The company disputes the charge.

The state’s top HMO regulator calls for outside oversight of insurers’ attempts to drop policyholders.

Common medications also can be deemed too risky in California.