New York Mental Health Parity Law Lacks Private Right Of Action, Judge Says

Mealey's (March 29, 2018, 2:34 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A New York state law forbidding health care insurers from applying different standards when deciding whether to cover mental health treatments lacks a private right of action and dooms an anorexic woman’s claim, but her similar federal-law claim may proceed, a federal judge in the state held March 27 (Jamie Bushell v. UnitedHealth Group Inc., et al., No. 17-2021, S.D. N.Y., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 51577)...