Insurer Wants Rehearing In 9th Circuit Anti-Assignment Clause Case

(November 16, 2020, 9:30 AM EST) -- SACRAMENTO, Calif. — No precedent supports a court’s cherry-picking of which documents it wanted included as health insurance plan documents, and had it properly considered all the documents, it would have found that anti-assignment provisions barred a hospital’s Employee Retirement Income Security Act claim seeking reimbursement, an insurer argues in an Oct. 16 petition for rehearing and en banc rehearing (Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital v. Community Insurance Co., et al., No. 19-55053, 9th Cir.)....