Mealey's (November 27, 2018, 12:55 PM EST) -- CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Nov. 21 denied a petition by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) asking for rehearing for limited purposes of removing two sentences from a decision finding that a federal court erred in remanding the HHS’s dispute with an insolvent insurer’s liquidator over the government’s setoff of its own debt payments by first paying down the insolvent insurer’s debt (Jennifer Hammer v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, No. 18-2523, 7th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 33002)....