P.
P. v. United Healthcare Benefits Plan of California
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
ETHAN P.,
Case No. 24-cv-06932-RS Plaintiff, 11 v. ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS WITH LEAVE TO AMEND
UNITED HEALTHCARE BENEFITS
PLAN OF CALIFORNIA, Defendant.
15 Plaintiff Ethan P. alleges defendant United Healthcare Benefits Plan of California violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”) when it refused to cover certain mental health treatment for his son. Plaintiff contends the treatment was medically necessary, and was otherwise eligible for coverage under the employer-sponsored welfare benefit plan in which he participated. The operative First Amended Complaint advances a claim for recovery of benefits that United Healthcare does not challenge at the pleading stage. The second claim for relief, however, entitled “breach of fiduciary duty,” includes an assertion that United Healthcare, “[c]onsciously, unreasonably, intentionally, and without …