9th Circuit Panel Says Summary Plan Description Covers Reimbursement Provisions

Mealey's (August 2, 2017, 11:39 AM EDT) -- PASADENA, Calif. — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Aug. 1 vacated a California federal judge’s grant of summary judgment in favor of health plan participants, saying the judge erred in enjoining the plan and its board of directors from enforcing summary plan description provisions regarding reimbursement of benefits previously paid upon a plan participant’s receipt of a third-party recovery (Danielle Mull, et al. v. Motion Picture Industry Health Plan, et al., No. 15-56246, 9th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 13949)....