Mealey's (January 17, 2019, 11:59 AM EST) -- ST. LOUIS — UnitedHealth Group Inc.’s practice of cross-plan offsetting is not authorized by its plan documents and is in tension with the requirements of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said Jan. 15 in affirming a district court’s summary judgment ruling in consolidated class actions challenging the insurer’s practice of cross-plan offsetting (Louis J. Peterson D.C., et al. v. UnitedHealth Group Inc., et al., No. 17-1744, 8th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 1270)....