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- Title
Select Recent Court Decisions: ERISA.
- Authors
Cohen, Jonathan
- Abstract
Reports on the ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit that states lack standing under the Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) to assert claims of ERISA violations on behalf of its citizens unless the state can show that it suffered actual or imminent injury. Lawsuit filed by the state of Connecticut against several managed care companies after the state received assignments of ERISA rights from four of its citizens who ha d been enrolled in Defendants' ERISA plans; Allegations of ERISA violations by the defendants by obstructing enrollees' access to prescription drugs, failing to make timely payments to providers, failing to disclose health insurance plan information to enrollees, failing to respond to enrollee letters and phone calls and denying enrollees' coverage based on arbitrary guidelines.
- Subjects
CONNECTICUT; MANAGED care programs; RETIREMENT income laws; LABOR laws; APPELLATE courts
- Publication
American Journal of Law & Medicine, 2004, Vol 30, Issue 4, p561
- ISSN
0098-8588
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/009885880403000405