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How Plan Sponsors Can Mitigate Risk in PBM Contracts

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For employers offering benefit plans, fiduciary responsibility is not just a legal designation. Under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, the fiduciary duty is the highest standard of care...more

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PBM Contracts Could Expose Plan Sponsors to Fiduciary Liability

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A plan sponsor’s fiduciary duty to be transparent in Pharmacy Benefit Manager contracts safeguards plan participants’ interests and mitigates the risk of litigation, regulatory penalties, and reputational harm, say Hall...more

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Federal Court Holds That Pathology Group States Viable Claims Against Multiplan and Cigna for Failing to Ensure In-Network Payment

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A federal court recently rejected arguments by MultiPlan, Inc. and Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company that they had no obligation to ensure payments at the contractually negotiated, in-network rate to Anatomic and...more

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Circuit Courts Grapple With the Permanence of Retiree Health Benefits Under Collective Bargaining Agreements

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On August 7, 2019, in Kelly v. Honeywell International, the Second Circuit handed down the latest decision in a series of cases across the country on a company’s obligation to provide lifetime health care to retirees....more

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DOL Provides Transitional Relief to Association Health Plans

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On April 29, 2019, the United States Department of Labor (the “DOL”) released a policy statement providing transitional relief from the potential adverse consequences arising from a District Court’s vacating portions of the...more

Polsinelli

Buyer Beware: Successor Employer Required by Court to Continue Retiree Health Benefits Under Language in Contract

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Mergers and acquisitions can be complicated transactions, particularly when the entity to be acquired has employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement with a union. ...more

White and Williams LLP

Purported Assignment and Power of Attorney Held Invalid in Provider’s Suit to Recover Health Benefits

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On December 4, 2018 United States District Judge Noel L. Hillman dismissed a suit for unpaid medical bills by a healthcare provider against its patient’s ERISA-governed health benefits plan, finding the assignment/power of...more

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The ERISA Litigation Newsletter - March 2015

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Editor's Overview - This month's newsletter discusses how to avoid liability under ERISA through plan design, including statute of limitations provisions, venue provisions, and anti-assignment provisions. Courts have...more

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