Panel Finds Error In Remand Of Dispute Between Insolvent Insurer, U.S. Government

Mealey's (September 26, 2018, 2:16 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A federal court erred in remanding to a state court a dispute between the U.S. Department of Health and Human (HHS) and an insolvent insurer’s liquidator over the government’s setoff of its own debt payments by first paying down the insolvent insurer’s debt, the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Sept. 25 (Jennifer Hammer v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, No. 18-2523, 7th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 27368)....