Humana sued by man claiming it wouldn’t cancel policy

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(Bloomberg) — Humana Inc. was sued by a Missouri man who claimed the insurer raised premiums for him and other customers and then failed to respond to requests to cancel policies, allegedly to increase revenue under the Affordable Care Act in what may be the first such lawsuit.

Hundreds of thousands of people received policy cancellation letters from insurers because their plans didn’t meet requirements of the ACA that took effect Jan. 1.


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