3 Judges Recuse Themselves From Proton Beam Radiation Therapy ERISA Class Action

Mealey's (May 2, 2019, 12:48 PM EDT) -- MIAMI — A third federal judge in Florida on April 30 recused himself from a class action accusing United Health Care Insurance Co. (UHC) of violating the Employee Retirement Income Security Act when refusing to reimburse patients for proton beam radiation therapy (PBRT) after another judge said in an April 29 order that it is “immoral and barbaric” to not reimburse prostate cancer patients for the treatment because it is not experimental and causes less collateral damage (Richard Cole, et al. v. United Health Care Insurance Co., No. 19-cv-21258, S.D. Fla.)....