Mealey's (May 6, 2022, 2:14 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruling allows an insurer to deny coverage based on guidelines inconsistent with the Employee Retirement Income Security Act plan’s own clear language mandating it follow the medical community’s generally accepted standards of care and which were formulated by the insurer’s finance department in a clear conflict of interest, a class argues in a May 5 petition seeking rehearing in a case it termed “an inflection point and a bellwether.”...