Panel Reverses Ruling In ERISA Dispute Over Alleged Overpayments Made To Hospital

(December 21, 2017, 1:53 PM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Dec. 19 held that a lower court erred in granting judgment in favor of a physician-owned hospital in an Employee Retirement Income Security Act dispute with a managed health care company, finding that the lower court failed to apply the required abuse of discretion analysis (Connecticut General Life Insurance Co., et al. v. Humble Surgical Hospital LLC, No. 16-20398, 5th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 25588)....

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