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		<title>From the Bench</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Self-Insurer      December 2011          Issue, Volume 38 By Michael Friedman and John Eggertsen The subtleties of subrogation Analysis, or when drafting plan Language it is not so simple to say what you mean in a way a court will understand it. For those who stick with this discussion of the Court’s assessment of the subrogation and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amicus Committee Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THIRD CIRCUIT HOLDS THAT ERISA PLANS REIMBURSEMENT CLAIMS ARE SUBJECT TO EQUITABLE DEFENSES AND LIMITATIONS On November 16, 2011, the Third Circuit held in US Airways, Inc. v. McCutchen, that an ERISA plan’s claims for reimbursement under ERISA §502(a)(3) are subject to equitable limitations and defenses.      The matter involved a self-funded ERISA plan which had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State’s Health Parity Act Overrides ERISA Plan’s Residential Exclusion</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Employer’s Guide to Self-Insuring Health Benefits Thompson Publishing                  November 2011      Vol. 19, No. 2 The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered Blue Shield of California, the plan administrator of an insured ERISA plan, to cover a residential stay for psychological treatment despite plan terms excluding residential stays of any kind. The court even found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop-loss Insurance and Self-insuring: Will Regulators Ever Understand It?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Employer’s Guide to Self-Insuring Health Benefits Thompson Publishing                  November 2011      Vol. 19, No. 2 The federal agencies in charge of implementing health reform and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) keep saying stop-loss policies with low attachment points mean an employer-sponsored health plan is really not self-funded. Contributing Editor Adam V. Russo and Attorney [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eating Disorders a New Front in Insurance Fight</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforsubro.com/federal-circuits/9th/eating-disorders-a-new-front-in-insurance-fight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People with eating disorders like anorexia have opened up a new battleground in the insurance wars, testing the boundaries of laws mandating equivalent coverage for mental illnesses. Through claims and court cases, those with severe cases of anorexia or bulimia are fighting insurers to pay for stays in residential treatment centers, arguing that the centers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court Re-Thinks Equitable Remedies and the Legal Significance of SPDs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 19:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Self-Insurer                               August 2011 From the Bench                Michael Friedman and John Eggertsen                  The U.S. Supreme Court, in GIGNA Corp v. Amara, et al., 563 U.S., 2011 WL 1936077 (May 16, 2011), revisited, and likely expanded, the scope of equitable remedies available under ERISA § 502 (a)(3). The Court also rejected Plaintiff’s effort to sue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court Re-Thinks Equitable Remedies and the Legal Significance of SPDs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Self-Insurer                August 2011  From the Bench       Michael Friedman and John Eggertsen            The U.S. Supreme Court, in GIGNA Corp v. Amara, et al., 563 U.S., 2011 WL 1936077 (May 16, 2011), revisited, and likely expanded, the scope of equitable remedies available under ERISA § 502 (a)(3). The Court also rejected Plaintiff’s effort to sue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MWL FILES NASP AMICUS BRIEF IN SIGNIFICANT ERISA CASE</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforsubro.com/federal-circuits/9th/mwl-files-nasp-amicus-brief-in-significant-erisa-case/</link>
		<comments>http://www.passionforsubro.com/federal-circuits/9th/mwl-files-nasp-amicus-brief-in-significant-erisa-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matthiesen, Wickert &#38; Lehrer, S.C.     June 2011 Newsletter Matthiesen, Wickert &#38; Lehrer, S.C. (MWL) has authored and filed an amicus curiae brief on behalf of the National Association of Subrogation Professionals (NASP) in the 9 Circuit case th of CGI Technologies and Solutions, Inc. Welfare Benefit Plan v. Rhonda Rose and Nelson Langer Engle, PLLC. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ninth Circuit Holds That Third Party Insurers May Be Sued Under ERISA</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforsubro.com/erisa/ninth-circuit-holds-that-third-party-insurers-may-be-sued-under-erisa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 22:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[www.fordharrison.com     6/29/2011 Executive Summary: Specifically overruling the holdings of four prior decisions, a full panel of the Ninth Circuit has held that ERISA permits the beneficiaries of an employee benefits plan to sue parties other than the plan administrator to recover benefits due under the plan. See Cyr v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company (9th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Third-Party Carriers to Employee Benefits Plans Can Be Sued Under ERISA</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 18:09:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[www.workforce.com      June 27, 2011 The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals circuit court June 23 decided that retirement-plan participants can sue third-party insurers under the Employee Retirement IncomeA panel of 11 judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled that ERISA does not specifically limit which parties can be sued [...]]]></description>
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