UnumProvident Hit with Injunction, $7.6M

Federal Judge James Larson has ruled Paul Revere/UnumProvident et al., liable for violating California Business and Professions Code Sec. 17200 (Unfair Business Practices). In a strongly worded opinion, Judge Larson, among other things, issued an injunction ordering the company to obey the law and enjoined it from future violations, including but not limited to targeting for termination categories of claims or claimants, employing biased medical examiners, destroying medical reports, and withholding from claimants information about their benefits. Judge Larson also denied all of U...