In Re Managed Care Litigation

OMNIBUS ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART JOINT MOTION TO DISMISS THE SECOND AMENDED CONSOLIDATED CLASS ACTION COMPLAINT

MORENO, District Judge.

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I. INTRODUCTION

This multi-district litigation involves two separate categories of plaintiffs who have filed suit against various insurance companies that provide managed care. One group of plaintiffs consists of Providers 1 who allege that the managed care company defendants, both individually and in combination, engaged in a pattern of failing to pay claims in full and in a timely manner, thereby breaching certain…