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billion to $2.2 billion. UnitedHealth’s trading at around 40 percenrt of the value it was at the end of coupled with its low annualizeddividende rate, put the company’s returnn to shareholders 75th for 2008. The company took a hit when announcingan $895 millioh settlement of a shareholdert lawsuit related to a stock-options scandalk involving former CEO William Legal settlements and rising medicaol costs cut into second-quarter earningzs for UnitedHealth, which reported earnings of $337 million for the down from $1.23 billion the previouw year largely due to the settlement of two class-action lawsuits that resulted in a total pretazx charge of $922 million.
The news hasn’ all been bad. UnitedHealth did see gains in its Healthb Care Services and OptumHealth companiess during thethird quarter. Like many other however, UnitedHealth has been hit by the It has seen membership decreases due to layoffszand “that puts pressure on revenues and said David Toung, a research analystg with The Minnetonka-based health insurerf in early December slightly raised the bottom range of its guidancw for 2009 to $85 billion from $84 billion, whilr keeping its profit outlook the same at $2.900 to $3.
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