Judge Finds Preemption In Federal Employee’s Lactation Coverage Case

(September 26, 2017, 10:06 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A woman’s state law class action claiming that her insurer’s plan documents deceptively advertise and negligently misrepresent the availability of in-network lactation assistance providers sufficiently invokes federal law to warrant preemption, a federal judge in New York held Sept. 22 (Jacqueline Wyka Mahajan, et al. v. Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, No. 16-6944, S.D. N.Y., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 155365)....

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