BUA fines Australia $ 23 million to Australia after “unreliable behavior

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The British Health Insurer BUPA has agreed to make $ 35 million ($ 23 million) in Australia after receiving the legal claims of patients in a five-year period.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the country’s consumer guard, BUPH, the British company, the British company, the company, which is engaged in “wrong and deceptive” experiences between 2018 and 2023, he said.

The regulator agreed the fine with BUPA, but a court will officially determine the punishment.

Crackdown is the end of a number of actions Australiaregulators against companies including HiltHSBC and country MARAMS and banks protecting poor management and consumers.

The action against BUA applies to the claims of many procedures during the vision of patients, or many procedures, usually during a hospital visit.

Boda If one of the procedures was not covered by customer policy, even though other parts of the lawsuit were legal, although.

Commission Chairman Gina Cass-Gottlieb said that the rejected allegations have stopped paying thousands of customers from pockets, improving their policies or treat some cases.

“BUPH’s behavior has been more than five years, and has been affected by thousands of members, and some partial insurance policies have damaged or treated, without being under suspended or treated,” said Cass-Gottlieb.

Nick stone, BUPA Asia Pacific, acknowledged the insurer “unrelated behavior” and so far paid $ 14.3 million to customers to pay 4100 claims and compliance checks. “It should never happen,” he said.

Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong operations, BUPA was the largest unit of the insurer last year, 37% of the group, £ 16.9 billion and about 914 mln.

The British company has entered Australia in 2002 and has become a special health insurer in Australia’s second largest private health insurer in Australia, 4.5 mN of Mediban.

The Australian government allows private health insurance to facilitate the pressure on the public system, driving the public system.

BUPA is also associated with the potential proposal for the health of the hospital operator in Australia and expanding and collapsed to the control last month.

Bupa refused to comment that he will try to take on the company.