Legal Opinion
Wachtel v. Health Net, Inc.
District Court, D. New Jersey
Decided December 6, 2006No. Civ. Nos. 01-4183, 03-1801PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HOCHBERG, District Judge.
I. Introduction
Plaintiff-beneficiaries have sued their healthcare insurance providers under ERISA, 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq., for breach of fiduciary duty and other wrongs connected to the way in which Health Net1 reimburses out-of-network (“ONET”) claims. After a lengthy pattern of repeated and gross noncompliance with discovery emerged, exacerbated by representations to the Court that began to ring hollow, this Court granted a *83motion by Plaintiffs for a Hearing Under the Inherent Power of the Court to Preserve the Integrity of the Judicial Process and Under…
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