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Excessive Fee Cases: Not Just for Retirement Plans Anymore

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A recent wave of cases has attempted to apply the theory of liability for retirement plan excessive fee cases to health plans – specifically, arrangements with pharmacy benefit managers. Though the cases thus far have...more

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Courts Address Participant Standing to Challenge Fees and Payments Received by Group Health Plan Service Providers

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As we recently suggested, ERISA disputes over the fees and expenses charged to employer or union sponsored group health plans may well become the next wave in ERISA litigation. At minimum, the Consolidated Appropriations Act...more

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Avoiding the Storm of Excessive Fee Litigation: How Fiduciaries of ERISA Health Plans Can Get Ahead of the Weather

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For some group health plan fiduciaries, there could be a storm brewing. Changes to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), buried within the 5,593 pages of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021...more

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

Benefits Monthly Minute - February 2022

The February Monthly Minute examines the DOL’s recent focus on mental health parity compliance, the Hughes vs. Northwestern University retirement plan fee litigation, and the latest COVID-19 testing coverage guidance....more

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Seventh Circuit Rejects Third-Party Administrator’s Attempt to Avoid Multimillion-Dollar Arbitration Award

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Standard Security Life Insurance Company of New York and Madison National Life Insurance Co. entered into an administrative services agreement with FCE Benefit Administrators Inc. under which FCE administered insurance...more

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Ninth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of ERISA Claims Against Health Insurers

The Ninth Circuit agreed that the employer-members of Montana’s Chamber of Commerce failed to state a claim for breach of fiduciary duty under ERISA § 502(a)(2) and violations of ERISA’s prohibited transaction rules under...more

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