Judge: Air Transport’s Lien Against Insurance Recovery Keeps Some Claims Alive

Mealey's (July 18, 2018, 1:32 PM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — A membership-based emergency air transport’s contract is ambiguous as to whether it may recover only from health insurance or is entitled to recovery from broader insurance as well, and its apparent attempts at collecting the proceeds of a tort settlement are enough to permit some breach of contract and injunctive relief claims against it by one of its members alive, a federal judge in Missouri held July 16 (Doris Ergle Lindsey Pratt v. Air Evac Lifeteam, et al., No. 17-3097, W.D. Mo., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 117854)....