( November 12, 2026, 8:53 AM EST) -- BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — A health care system and its excess-of-loss reinsurer stipulated in a California federal court to the reinsurer’s dismissal without prejudice from a lawsuit seeking more than $7.6 million in damages over allegedly wrongfully denied long-term acute care claims, just days after the health care system filed an amended complaint narrowing its claims against the reinsurer and its former reinsurance broker....