An appellate court sided with a UnitedHealth Group subsidiary this week in reversing a landmark behavioral health case where a lower court judge said the insurer's coverage decisions were tainted by its financial interests.
Plaintiffs in the class action lawsuit argued that United Behavioral Health (UBH), a division of the Minnetonka-based health care giant, breached fiduciary duties and wrongly denied benefits to enrollees in employer-sponsored health plans.
One of the named plaintiffs in the case is a Twin Cities woman whose 21-year-old son died of a drug overdose a few months after UBH said it would no longer pay for residential treatment of his drug addiction.
