ERISA Preempts Medical Provider’s Suit Against NFL, 5th Circuit Says

Mealey's (July 6, 2021, 2:02 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — Resolving a medical provider’s claim that the National Football League interfered with economic advantage by directing its insurer to classify health care claims as work related necessarily requires probing an Employee Retirement Income Security Act plan, and the statute completely preempts the state law claim, a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel said July 1....