U.S. High Court Won’t Hear ERISA Coordination Of Benefits Enforcement Appeal

Mealey's (March 19, 2018, 11:23 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on March 19 denied a health plan’s petition for writ of certiorari and an insurer’s cross-petition seeking review of an Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel’s ruling that an Employee Retirement Income Security Act plan can bring a declaratory judgment claim to enforce the plan’s coordination-of-benefits provision against a blanket insurer (First Agency Inc., et al. v. Dakotas and Western Minnesota Electrical Industry Health and Welfare Fund, No. 17-863, U.S. Sup.; Dakotas and Western Minnesota Electrical Industry Health and Welfare Fund v. First Agency, Inc., et al., No. 17-1008, U.S. Sup.)....