DOL Weighs In On 10th Circuit Appeal Over Residential Treatment Denial

Mealey's (March 3, 2022, 9:50 AM EST) -- DENVER — A lower court applied the correct legal framework in assessing whether an insurer’s denial of a claim for residential treatment benefits was arbitrary and capricious, the U.S. solicitor of Labor tells the 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in a Feb. 23 amicus curiae brief; on March 2, the court clerk referred a dispute over correcting the appendix that was filed in the appeal to the merits panel....