It appears that the winter holidays are truly over now, as the pace has picked up and the federal courts have issued more ERISA-related decisions. No one case in particular stood out this week, but there were plenty of entertaining facts and issues. Read on to learn about (a) potential transgender discrimination in medical benefits
Happy New Year to all our readers. Your ERISA Watch will be a little different for the next few months because our staff writer, Emily Payson, is on maternity leave with her first child (and the first grandchild for Your ERISA Watch co-editor Elizabeth Hopkins). We will continue to have a case of the week
No atmospheric river of ERISA cases this week, just a slow trickle as the year winds to an end. But keep reading for a number of interesting ERISA decisions, mostly concerning medical benefits, including the latest discovery decision in the Chippewa Tribe’s longstanding dispute with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.
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