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		<title>3rd Circuit Limits Full ERISA Remedy, Saying It Would Unjustly Enrich Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coordination Of Benefits             January 2012 Vol. 20 No. 1  In a surprising decision, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals used the concept of “appropriate equitable relief” to restrict an employer sponsored health plan’s recovery from a third-party settlement to less than what the plan paid out in health benefits. In US Airways, Inc. v. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appeals Court: Unjust Enrichment Limits Equitable Plan Recovery</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Employer’s Guide to Self-Insuring Health Benefits     January 2012 &#124; Vol. 19, No. 4  In a surprising decision, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals used the concept of “appropriate equitable relief” to restrict an employer-sponsored health plan’s recovery from a third-party settlement. Full reimbursement of what the plan paid out would have been “inappropriate and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Court Holds Plaintiff&#8217;s Recovery Of Medical Expenses Paid By Self-Funded ERISA Are Recoverable</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[www.myhea;thguide.com MyHealthGuide Source: Scott Cooper, Attorney, SchmidtKramer Injury Lawyers1/6/2012, Injury BlogNetwork Blog Entry Case: Bieber v. Nace, 2011 WL 6180719 (M.D.Pa. 12/13/2011).  Court Ruling The federal court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg recently addressed an issue regarding the recovery of special damages in a MMotion in Limine (request of ruling) in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Court Foils Latest Attempt to Argue Stop-loss Converts Self-funded Plans Into Fully Insured</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Employer’s Guide to Self-Insuring Health Benefits      December 2011 &#124; Vol. 19, No.3  The attempted treatment of stop-loss coverage as “health insurance” subject to state insurance law has been a thorn in the sides of self-funded plans seeking to maintain ERISA preemption of state insurance laws.  In Goyen v. Vail Corp., 2011 WL 4479091 (D. Colo., [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Airways, Inc. v. McCutchen: Third Circuit Logic Fails to Hang Together</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 02:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On November 16, 2011, a panel of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals decided US Airways v. McCutchen, No. 10-3836, 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 22883 (3d Cir. Nov. 16, 2011).  The Court claims to respond to the Sereboff court’s argument left open by footnote two in the Supreme Court’s decision in Sereboff v. Mid-Atlantic, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appeals Court Carves Into Equitable Relief: Total Plan Reimbursement Was Unjust Enrichment</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[www.myhealthguide.com MyHealthGuide Source: Todd Leeuwenburgh, Editor, Employer Health Benefits, Thompson Publishing Group, 12/9/2011, www.Thompson.com Case: US Airways, Inc. v. McCutchen, 2011 WL 5557411 (3rd Cir., Nov. 16, 2011) Editor&#8217;s Note:  In the11/28/2011 of this Newsletter, we published a review of this case by Agnes Mendoza-Ben-Yosef, BNA Pension &#38; Benefits Daily Article via The Gibson Firm, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Third Circuit Finds Place For Equitable Defenses To Subrogation Claims</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, inspired by the recent Supreme Court decision in CIGNA v. Amara, the Third Circuit has held that the “appropriate equitable relief” qualifier in the grant of civil remedies under ERISA’s Section 501(a)(3) allows for the application of equitable defenses to plan reimbursement claims in – shall we say – “appropriate” situations.  (I reviewed the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Third Circuit Finds Place For Equitable Defenses To Subrogation Claims</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Applying the traditional equitable principle of unjust enrichment, we conclude that the judgment requiring McCutchen to provide full reimbursement to US Airways constitutes inappropriate and inequitable relief. Because the amount of the judgment exceeds the net amount of McCutchen’s third-party recovery, it leaves him with less than full payment for his emergency medical bills, thus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ERISA Plan Reimbursement Limited by Equitable Principles: Third Circuit</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that, under ERISA Section 502(a)(3), an employee benefit plan was not entitled to full reimbursement for medical expenses it incurred on behalf of a participant and was limited by equitable principles and defenses to &#8220;appropriate&#8221; relief, despite plan language specifying full reimbursement. In its decision in US [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Third Circuit Limits Relief Available to ERISA Welfare Plans Seeking Reimbursement of Medical Expenses</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a case of significant importance for plan sponsors and fiduciaries, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held in US Airways, Inc. v. McCutchen, No. 10-3836 (3d Cir. Nov. 16, 2011), that an employee benefit plan was not entitled to full reimbursement of medical expenses it paid to a participant even though [...]]]></description>
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