Customers sue UnitedHealth over prescription drug co-pay costs

A bottle of prescription medication rests on a counter at a pharmacy in New YorkThe lawsuit, filed Tuesday in federal court in Minnesota by three UnitedHealth customers, seeks to represent a nationwide class that it says could include "tens of thousands" of people insured by UnitedHealth. The lawsuit said Minnesota-based UnitedHealth and affiliated companies charged customers co-payments for drugs that were significantly higher than prices it negotiated with pharmacies for those drugs. For example, the lawsuit claims, one class member paid a $50 co-payment for Sprintec, a contraceptive, while UnitedHealth paid the pharmacy only $11.65.

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Proposed U.S. anti-inversion rules enter final review

Picture illustration shows U.S. Dollar and Euro banknotes in SofiaU.S. regulations, proposed by the Treasury to crack down on companies that try to reduce taxes by rebasing abroad, have begun a White House review and could be finalized shortly, officials said on Tuesday. The regulations, which would make it difficult for U.S. business operations to avoid taxation while shifting profits overseas through a practice called "earnings stripping," were received by the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) last week.

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Kim Kardashian back after being held at gunpoint in $10 million Paris robbery

Kim Kardashian West participates in a television interview as she arrives for the 20th Annual Webby Awards in ManhattanBy Leigh Thomas PARIS/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Reality TV star Kim Kardashian returned to New York "badly shaken" on Monday after being robbed at gunpoint in her Paris residence by masked men who stole some $10 million worth of jewelry. Kardashian, wearing sunglasses and with her head bowed, was pictured entering her Manhattan apartment with her rapper husband Kanye West. According to her publicist, Kardashian was "badly shaken but physically unharmed." She said nothing to waiting media upon her arrival.

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