2 Class Suits: Insurers Are Violating ERISA By Denying Magnetic Therapy

Mealey's (September 11, 2015, 1:16 PM EDT) -- An insurance company is violating the Employee Retirement Income Security Act by refusing to cover therapeutic repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), a California woman alleges in her class complaint filed Sept. 8 in a California federal court; she brings claims that are similar those in a class suit filed Sept. 3 in Connecticut federal court by a Tennessee man (Annette Weil, et al. v. Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company, et al. , No. 15-7074, C.D. Calif.; Christopher Meidl, et al. v. Aetna, Inc., et al., No. 15-1319, D. Conn.)....