Judge Says Air Transport Provider, Insurer Never Agreed To Settlement

(October 24, 2019, 3:32 PM EDT) -- GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Because a health insurer’s agent never signed a proposed settlement with an emergency air transport company, no formal agreement exists, the provider cannot claim to have relied on later statements in providing the service and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act preempts the lone other claim, a federal judge in Michigan held Oct. 2 (Air Trek Inc. v. Capital Steel & Wire Inc., et al., No. 17-1145, W.D. Mich., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 171716)....

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