Ninth Circuit to Decide if UnitedHealth Keeps Its Preemption “Get-Out-of-Jail-Free” Card - GJLaw

LOS ANGELES, March 31, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In a closely watched UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage fraud case, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will soon decide whether United—the nation’s largest for-profit Medicare Advantage provider—can continue to evade liability under a controversial and sweeping “preemption” defense. At issue is a national class action filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (Case No. 8:23-cv-02303), Estate of Bibi Ahmad v. UnitedHealth Group In ...