Magistrate Judge: Plaintiffs In ERISA Hospitals Payments Suit Haven’t Proven Venue

(March 9, 2018, 9:12 AM EST) -- SAN ANTONIO — A Texas federal court has personal jurisdiction over two health insurance affiliates seeking to be dismissed from a suit over alleged underpayments by numerous Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliates (collectively, BCBS defendants) to seven different hospitals, but the plaintiffs have failed to show that the venue is proper, a Texas federal magistrate judge opined in a March 6 report and recommendation, adding that the plaintiffs should be permitted to amend their complaint (Neil Gilmour III, et al. v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, et al., No. 17-518, W.D. Texas, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 36823)....