Here are a couple of comments and the answer
"From a previous post it was mentioned that $1.5 billion in claims dollars were submitted by us and physicians. Sooo...we have a $350,000,000 settlement pool minus $25,000,000 for lawyers and $7,900,000 to Berdon. From my perspective, United Healtcare is laughing all the way to the bank, since they have been released with no further litigation in this matter. My question is who approved the $350,000,000 pool which was woefully inadequate? Did UHC provide false $$$ amounts during the litigation?"
Here is the answer I received from Berdon Claims about the calculation:
After a reduction of 20%, but no more than $2,000.00, payout is calculated at $0.1391/dollar. All claims are subject to a pro rata distribution. As stated in the Notice on pages 4-5 (see attached), settlement proceeds will be reduced if the amount of claims filed exceeds the settlement fund. We received in excess of $1.5 billion in claims and as such, all settlement proceeds were reduced in accordance of the Plan of Allocation.
"received a check for $158.78 after submitting claims for over $9000. Calculating the time to obtain EOB's, check copies, credit card invoice copies,& filing Berdon's forms, basically worked out to a little over $4.00/hr. Should have known this was a "Vaseline" job from the beginning. Anyone know if/when Ted Kaczynski likely to be paroled?"