March 11, 2025
The Second Circuit upheld a win for a union benefit fund Tuesday in a medical practice's suit alleging it was owed reimbursements for COVID-19 testing from a union employee health benefit plan, finding a lower court properly tossed the complaint for failure to exhaust administrative remedies.
February 03, 2025
A Second Circuit appellate judge suggested Monday that a union benefit plan may not have been acting fully aboveboard when it did not notify a Connecticut medical practice of an appeal process after it denied reimbursements for COVID-19 testing, but he also met the practice's accusations with skepticism.
January 31, 2025
The en banc Eleventh Circuit will consider whether federal anti-discrimination law bars a Georgia county health plan from refusing to cover a worker's gender-confirmation surgery while the Second Circuit will hear from an NBA referee defending his win in a pension payout case.