UNH UnitedHealth Settles With New York Attorney General Over Database Unit

September 5, 2009
By Chris Faiella on September 5, 2009 8:04 AM |

UNH UnitedHealth Settles With New York Attorney General Over Database Unit.

UnitedHealth stacked the deck its own insureds in order to skimp on paying claims of the sick and injured. Insurance policies are contracts. Contracts are promises and insurance companies make a promise as a fiduciary when they take premium dollars for the performance of a promise to pay in the future. This story sheds some light on how private insurance companies game the system to cheat policyholders.