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	<title>Passion for Subro &#187; Federal Circuits</title>
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	<description>The personal subrogation blog of Attorney Adam V. Russo.</description>
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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>Pregnant Employee Terminated Prior to Becoming Eligible for Leave Can State Causes of Action Under FMLA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently held in a case of first impression in this circuit that the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) “protects a pre-eligibility request for post-eligibility leave.” That is, the FMLA protects an employee who gives notice, before she is eligible for leave, of intent to take FMLA leave for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Administrator Flubs Stop-loss Claim; State-law Charges on Administrator Not Preempted</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Employer’s Guide to Self-Insuring Health Benefits        January 2012 &#124; Vol. 19, No. 4  A claims administrator lost an attempt to dismiss negligence and breach of contract charges relating to its failure to process and pay a large claim before the final day of a stop-loss policy’s run-out period.  The self-insured Hebrew Home health plan sued [...]]]></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>Court Allows HR Staffer’s Comment to Support FMLA Discrimination Claim</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top brass may have the last word when it comes to adverse actions. But even comments made by lower-level managers — including those in human resources — may be used to support the kind of discrimination claim that often follows in the highly emotional climate following a layoff. A recent appeals court ruling in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Invalid FMLA certification can form the basis of employment termination.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order to support a valid claim of retaliation under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), an employee must demonstrate that the reason given for an adverse employment action was pretextual, and that the employee’s request for or use of FMLA leave was the actual basis of the action. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court [...]]]></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>The Fact That TPA’s Duties Were Non-fiduciary Frees It From ERISA Allegations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[10th]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Employer’s Guide to Self-Insuring Health Benefits    December 2011 &#124; Vol. 19, No.3 In a lawsuit involving denied gastric repair services, a third-party administrator (TPA) argued its way out of an ERISA claim for denied benefits and alleging fiduciary abuse, after the court agreed it only did what the plan sponsor told it in documents, e-mails [...]]]></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>Supreme Court Decision on Health Reform Will Give Clarity to Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Employer’s Guide to Self-Insuring Health Benefits     December 2011 &#124; Vol. 19, No.3  The U.S. Supreme Court definitively announced on Nov. 14 it will decide the question of whether Congress exceeded its powers to regulate commerce when it decided to require people to buy health insurance (that is, whether the individual mandate is allowed under the [...]]]></description>
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