Mealey's (February 7, 2017, 2:46 PM EST) -- MINNEAPOLIS — A self-funded Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) plan falls outside the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)’s essential health benefits requirement, a federal judge in Minnesota said Feb. 2 in adopting a report and recommendation partially rejecting insurance coverage claims arising from a fireworks accident (Jeffrey Jay Henrikson v. Choice Products USA LLC, et al., No. 16-1317, D. Minn.)....