Insurer Says Residential Treatment Class Can’t Show Causation

Mealey's (June 7, 2021, 2:42 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The Employee Retirement Income Security Act grants insureds numerous ways to challenge a denial of benefits, but their broad attack on guidelines used to evaluate residential treatment claims exceeds the statute and is improperly punitive, an insurer tells the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in a June 2 reply brief....