March 26, 2026
Midwestern law firm McDonald Hopkins LLC must produce email communications in connection with litigation accusing Blue Cross units of a smear campaign against a clinical lab owner, an Ohio federal judge ruled, finding the documents were not protected by work product or attorney-client privilege.
April 29, 2025
Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina asked a federal judge to sanction a hospital company and its related entities for their purported "evasion, obfuscation, misdirection and outright misrepresentation" during discovery in a $32 million billing dispute that has gone on for seven years.
January 13, 2025
A local hospital can pursue some of its defamation claims against Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina in a suit alleging the health insurer wrongly denied millions of dollars in reimbursements and falsely accused the facility of fraud, a federal judge ruled Monday.
November 29, 2023
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina has demanded that a hospital and its laboratory hand over a raft of testing and screening information the insurer says the hospital billed but did not perform.
August 10, 2023
A North Carolina federal judge has ruled that Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina can subpoena an attorney who represented a hospital group that's suing the insurance giant over a breach of contract, rejecting an argument that the attorney is protected because previous testimony from the lab's founder waived attorney-client privilege.