4th Circuit Panel Affirms Judgment For Michelin Plan On Injection Payment Rulings

Mealey's (June 15, 2017, 1:36 PM EDT) -- RICHMOND, Va. — A Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on June 13 affirmed the grant of summary judgment to defendants in a case where a plaintiff sued under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act seeking additional reimbursement for a series of steroid knee injections that an orthopedic surgeon administered to his spouse, finding no abuse of discretion in the defendants’ decision to not provide additional insurance coverage and no error in the trial court’s refusal to consider information that the plaintiff failed to provide during the administrative appeals process (Monte Hooper, et al. v. UnitedHealthcare Insurance Co., et al., No. 15-2157, 4th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 10482)....