Court: ACA Lifetime Benefit Cap Provision Doesn’t Cover ERISA Retiree Plan

(September 11, 2017, 2:33 PM EDT) -- PASADENA, Calif. — The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)’s ban on lifetime benefit maximums does not apply to retiree plans governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, but the plan documents are sufficiently confusing to state a cause of action, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held Sept. 8 (Gary King, et al. v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, et al., No. 15-55880, 9th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 17387)....

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