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	<description>The personal subrogation blog of Attorney Adam V. Russo.</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Law Prohibiting Liens Against WC Settlements Preempted By ERISA</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforsubro.com/erisa/law-prohibiting-liens-against-wc-settlements-preempted-by-erisa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam V. Russo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ERISA preempted an Illinois state law outlawing any claim on a workers&#8217; compensation award, because the law related to benefits plans regulated by ERISA, a federal trial court decided. As a result, an employer may seek reimbursement of group health plan funds from workers&#8217; compensation awards. The health plan paid the expenses before a determination [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State Law Claim Against ERISA Plan Avoids Preemption</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforsubro.com/federal-circuits/7th/state-law-claim-against-erisa-plan-avoids-preemption/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam V. Russo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In the case of Franciscan Skemp Healthcare, Inc. v. Central States Joint Board Health &#38; Welfare Trust Fund No. 07-3456 (7th Cir.)(July 31, 2008), the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals determined that when a party files a pure state law claim against an ERISA plan, preemption to Federal Court is improper.
In this case, a provider [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massachusetts State Court Rules that Fully Funded Plans May Coordinate With Optional MPC</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforsubro.com/state-law/massachusetts/massachusetts-state-court-rules-that-fully-funded-plans-may-coordinate-with-optional-mpc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam V. Russo</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, according to G.L. c. 90, §34A, auto insurers must provide their insureds with $8K personal injury protection (PIP).  In addition, insureds may purchase optional medical payments coverage (MPC) on top of the PIP.
The law also states that the auto insurer is only responsible to pay $2K of the $8K PIP [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TABA Conference</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforsubro.com/erisa/self-funding-benefits-and-the-new-legal-battles-under-erisa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.passionforsubro.com/erisa/self-funding-benefits-and-the-new-legal-battles-under-erisa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam V. Russo</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[ERISA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday September 8, 2008, Adam V. Russo, Esq. will be presenting his seminar on self-funding benefits and the new legal battles under ERISA at the Texas Association of Benefit Administrators (TABA) 2008 Fall Conference &#38; Exhibition held at the Marriott Dallas Solana Hotel in Westlake, Texas.
See the entire presentation before the conference
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		<title>Paxil Settlement Proposed For Plans Paying on Patients Under 18 Years of Age</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforsubro.com/news/paxil-settlement-proposed-for-plans-paying-on-patients-under-18-years-of-age/</link>
		<comments>http://www.passionforsubro.com/news/paxil-settlement-proposed-for-plans-paying-on-patients-under-18-years-of-age/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam V. Russo</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Please review the attached documents regarding a class action suit for which settlement has been proposed.  It addresses patients who were prescribed Paxil prior to their eighteenth birthday, for which you may have paid claims and may be due reimbursement.
Please review the information we have provided and determine if this affects you. 
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		<title>ERISA Goes To The Presses</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam V. Russo</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[ERISA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Providence Journal features a review by Mandy Twaddell, analyzing the new book by Peter Gosselin.  The book&#8217;s title is High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families.  The book describes various pitfalls many American families experience today, and tells the tale of at least one encounter with ERISA.
Ms. Twaddell recounts the story of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breach of Duty Suit Announced</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforsubro.com/fiduciary-liability/breach-of-duty-suit-announced/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam V. Russo</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Fiduciary Liability]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Litigation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Brualdi Law Firm, P.C. has issues a press release regarding suit they have filed against Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. for potential violations of ERISA.  The suit concerns Lehman Brother&#8217;s 401(k) plan, which comes within the purview of ERISA.  Brualdi, representing members of the Plan, assert that Lehman Brothers and other administrators of the Plan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Landmark Class-Action Settlement Involves ERISA</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforsubro.com/erisa/landmark-class-action-settlement-involves-erisa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam V. Russo</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[3rd]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ERISA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, following a hearing on July 24, 2008, has approved a $250 million settlement in the matter of plan members versus Health Net, Inc. 
The case involved three separate actions that were combined by the court.  All involved members of a health benefits plan and their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7th Circuit Follows 8th Regarding Administrator “Non-Decisions”</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforsubro.com/federal-circuits/7th/7th-circuit-follows-8th-regarding-administrator-%e2%80%9cnon-decisions%e2%80%9d/</link>
		<comments>http://www.passionforsubro.com/federal-circuits/7th/7th-circuit-follows-8th-regarding-administrator-%e2%80%9cnon-decisions%e2%80%9d/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam V. Russo</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[7th]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has just held in Pakovich v. Broadspire Services, Inc., that when a plan administrator fails to issue a benefits determination, and there is no administrative decision regarding a claim on record, the Court is not to make a decision in lieu of the administrator.  Instead, the case is remanded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Allocation of Settlement Violates Terms of Plan</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforsubro.com/plan-language/allocation-of-settlement-violates-terms-of-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.passionforsubro.com/plan-language/allocation-of-settlement-violates-terms-of-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam V. Russo</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[11th]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Plan Language]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Wrongful Death]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Diamond Crystal Brands, Inc. v. Wallace, 531 F.Supp.2d 1366 (N.D. Ga.2008)
After the negligent medical care and consequential death of Deborah Hayes, the Estate and her daughter Tamara Hayes pursued a wrongful death claim against the hospital.  In Georgia State Court plaintiffs settled for $900,000, of which $837,000 went to Tamara Hayes and $63,000 to the [...]]]></description>
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