Insurer Says ERISA Preempts Hospital Group’s Case; Facts Don’t Support Claims

(June 20, 2018, 2:18 PM EDT) -- SALT LAKE CITY — The Employee Retirement Income Security Act preempts a hospital group’s claims alleging underpayment of medical bills, but the claims would fail in any case because they involve insurer-insured rights and cannot be assigned to third parties, an insurer tells a federal judge in Utah in a June 15 memo (IHC Health Services Inc., et al. v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas Inc., No. 18-277, D. Utah)....

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