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Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

Benefits Monthly Minute - May 2025

The May Monthly Minute brings you up-to-date on mental health parity enforcement relief, as well as smoker surcharge and prohibited transaction litigation. Nonenforcement of 2024 Mental Health Parity Regulations - Earlier...more

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Mental Health Parity: In a Pair of Decisions, California Federal Court Rejects United’s Efforts to Kick Behavioral Health Class...

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Within the last month, the US District Court for the Northern District of California rejected efforts by United Behavioral Health (UBH) to dismiss and decertify two class actions seeking relief related to UBH’s processing of...more

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

Benefits Monthly Minute - April 2025

The April Monthly Minute showers readers with some eye-opening case law updates, ranging from a $38.8M jury verdict in a 401(k) fee case, to a pair of cases involving Elevance (f/k/a Anthem) health plan coverage exclusions....more

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Anthem Set to Settle Five-Year Long Mental Health Coverage Class Action

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Anthem Inc. has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit brought by participants in employee health plans administered by the insurer....more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

State Attorneys General Continue to Collaborate on Bipartisan Issues

State Attorneys General (AGs) across the country continue their bipartisan collaboration on issues affecting citizens across state lines. State AGs have long worked in multi-state groups related to broad-based investigations...more

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Health Headlines - December 2024

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Welcome to the first issue of Health Headlines, a newsletter created by lawyers in our Healthcare practice. In this issue, we cover Medicare Part C oversight, new cybersecurity legislation, healthcare lawsuits and deals, and...more

Proskauer - Proskauer For Good

Pro Bono Work and the Impact of Growing Inequality

Pro bono work regularly makes a meaningful difference in people’s lives, whether by securing a favorable outcome for an individual or resolving a class action case affecting thousands. While it’s important to recognize and...more

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District Court Dismisses Class Action Seeking Wilderness Therapy Benefits

A federal district court rebuffed putative class claims alleging that Cigna Health and Life Insurance Co. and two of the plans it administered violated the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 (“MHPAEA”) by...more

Proskauer - Proskauer For Good

Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against New York State for Failure to Provide Legally Required Mental Health Services to...

Proskauer, in conjunction with attorneys from Children’s Rights, Disability Rights New York, and the National Health Law Program, have filed a class action lawsuit against New York officials in response to the mental health...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Wit Is Flipped: The Ninth Circuit Reverses Major ERISA Decision

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The Ninth Circuit just reversed decisions from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in Wit v. United Behavioral Health, which had ordered United Behavioral Health (“UBH”) to reprocess thousands of...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

State, Federal, and Private Enforcement of Mental Health Parity Compliance

Six months ago, we cautioned health plans and plan sponsors that states, the federal government, and private litigants were laser focused on Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (“MHPAEA”) compliance. The United...more

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UnitedHealth Settles Allegations It Wrongfully Reduced Or Denied Mental Health And Substance Abuse Coverage

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New York AG Letitia James and the S. Department of Labor (“DoL”) reached a settlement with health insurer UnitedHealth Group Inc. and related entities (collectively “UHG”) to resolve allegations that it wrongfully reduced or...more

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Key Takeaways From an ERISA Fiduciary Breach Ruling on Behavioral Standards of Care After a 10-Day Trial

Behavioral health claims administrators and plan sponsors alike may be looking more closely at their care guidelines—and how they are applied—after a federal court ruled in a California class action that a claims...more

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Federal District Court Rules United Unlawfully Denied Coverage for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Services Based on...

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On March 5, 2019, Chief Magistrate Judge Joseph C. Spero of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that United Behavioral Health (UBH), a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, violated its fiduciary...more

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Class Certified in Claims for Autism Treatment Coverage

A federal district court in the Western District of Kentucky certified a class of participants and beneficiaries in plans sponsored by Anthem Health Plans of Kentucky, Inc. who had been denied coverage or reimbursement for...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Fenwick Employment Brief

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California Legislative Update - In the latter half of 2016, California Governor Jerry Brown signed numerous bills into law. Below is a summary of those laws that will affect California employers in 2017 and beyond. ...more

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Employment Law Navigator – Week in Review: December 2016 #3

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Last week, the EEOC issued a publication on the rights of job applicants and employees with mental health conditions, along with a companion document addressing the mental health provider’s role in reasonable accommodations...more

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Benefits Litigation Update – Fall 2016

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A Publication from Epstein Becker Green and The ERISA Industry Committee - Epstein Becker Green and The ERISA Industry Committee (“ERIC”) are pleased to release the current issue of the Benefits Litigation Update...more

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The ERISA Litigation Newsletter - October 2015

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Editor's Overview - This month, we review the Second Circuit's ruling in New York State Psychiatric Ass'n, Inc. v. UnitedHealth Grp. wherein the Second Circuit ruled that: (i) a provider association has associational...more

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