Questions Of Fact Exist In Breach Of Fiduciary Duty, Reinsurance Dispute

Mealey's (March 29, 2021, 2:02 PM EDT) -- STATESVILLE, N.C. — A North Carolina federal judge on March 25 denied cross-motions for summary judgment filed by parties in a dispute over whether a third-party health insurance administrator unreasonably failed to process and pay a health plan participant’s expenses, resulting in a loss to the plan when the expenses could not be claimed under a reinsurance policy, because numerous issues of material fact exist regarding whether the third-party health insurance administrator breached its fiduciary duties under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act....