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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>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>From the Bench</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforsubro.com/erisa/from-the-bench-4/</link>
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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>PROVING MEDICAL EXPENSES IN TEXAS SUBROGATION CASES</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforsubro.com/subrogation/proving-medical-expenses-in-texas-subrogation-cases/</link>
		<comments>http://www.passionforsubro.com/subrogation/proving-medical-expenses-in-texas-subrogation-cases/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cmonfils</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On July 1, 2011 the Texas Supreme Court finally settled the long-standing issue of whether an injured plaintiff may recover the amount of medical expenses charged by doctors or the amount actually paid or incurred. Trial lawyers have long argued that plaintiffs should be entitled to recover the amount charged to them by doctors and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Third Circuit Finds Place For Equitable Defenses To Subrogation Claims</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforsubro.com/subrogation/third-circuit-finds-place-for-equitable-defenses-to-subrogation-claims-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.passionforsubro.com/subrogation/third-circuit-finds-place-for-equitable-defenses-to-subrogation-claims-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 01:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cmonfils</dc:creator>
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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>Amicus Committee Update</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforsubro.com/subrogation/amicus-committee-update-7/</link>
		<comments>http://www.passionforsubro.com/subrogation/amicus-committee-update-7/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[House Bill 3000: We previously reported on House Bill 3000, which prohibited collateral source providers from seeking recovery or subrogating in a health care lawsuit.  We wanted to clarify that the bill defined a health care lawsuit to mean a claim against a “health care provider, a health care organization, or the manufacturer, distributor, supplier, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amicus Committee Update</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforsubro.com/subrogation/amicus-committee-update-6/</link>
		<comments>http://www.passionforsubro.com/subrogation/amicus-committee-update-6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cmonfils</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Subrogation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Federal Employee Health Benefit Plans:  As you may recall we recently sent out a blast regarding four putative class action lawsuits, challenging a Federal Employee Health Benefits plans’ right to recover or subrogate and alleging that the Federal Employee Health Benefit Act (FEHBA) does not preempt state anti-subrogation laws.  Recently, the case of Morris v. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Managing Subrogation Disputes Between Health Plans and Their Members</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforsubro.com/subrogation/managing-subrogation-disputes-between-health-plans-and-their-members/</link>
		<comments>http://www.passionforsubro.com/subrogation/managing-subrogation-disputes-between-health-plans-and-their-members/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cmonfils</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reimbursement]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Subrogator Fall 2011 By Steven M. Bialick, Law Office of Steven M. Bialick Many health plans demand to be reimbursed, in full, for accident related medical benefits they paid before a plan member is allowed to keep any money received from the parties responsible for the accident. The laws of some states require health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Achieve Successful Stop Loss Subrogation</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforsubro.com/stop-loss/achieve-successful-stop-loss-subrogation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.passionforsubro.com/stop-loss/achieve-successful-stop-loss-subrogation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Subrogator Fall 2011 By Angela K. Larson, Optuminsight Health plan often protect themselves against large or catastrophic loss through stop loss insurance, also known as reimbursement plans. When the health plan’s exposure exceeds a preset deductable, stop loss benefits reimburse the health plan inside of a particular contract year, thereby mitigating the overall risk [...]]]></description>
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