Raytheon Settles Mental Health Suit for $640,000, Coverage Boost

Raytheon Co. will settle a class action challenging its health plan’s alleged failure to properly cover speech therapy services by paying $640,000 and maintaining expanded coverage through at least 2027, according to a Massachusetts federal court filing.

The deal, filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, resolves a 300-person class action challenging Raytheon’s alleged practice of covering restorative speech therapy for people who lost verbal communication abilities, but failing to cover non-restorative therapy for people who never developed that ability in the first place.

A Raytheon employee whose 5-year-old child, N.R., received the latter treatment ...