(February 8, 2017, 8:45 AM EST) -- PHILADELPHIA — A panel of the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Jan. 6 affirmed a ruling in which a man was ordered to reimburse a health benefit plan after he obtained a settlement from a third party for injuries he suffered in an accident, finding that the settlement was not a legal judgment prohibited by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (National Elevator Industry Health Benefit Plan Board of Trustees v. Bernard McLaughlin, No. 16-1352, 3rd Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 280)....