Judge Won’t Modify ERISA Section In Dismissal Of Federal WA Cares Suit

Mealey's (May 13, 2022, 10:36 AM EDT) -- SEATTLE — Denying reconsideration of his order dismissing a putative class challenge to Washington’s new public state-sponsored long-term care insurance program known as WA Cares, a Washington federal judge on May 11 said the plaintiffs’ argument that the part of his ruling pertaining to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act was unnecessary because of his holding as to the Tax Injunction Act (TIA) was “exactly backwards.”...