Mealey's (March 6, 2020, 7:11 AM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Feb. 25 reversed and remanded to a California federal judge to reconsider allegations that the administrators and sponsors of a benefits plan governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act ran afoul of the statute when they paid just a fraction of the costs associated with the hospital stay of a plan participant (Regional Medical Center of San Jose v. WH Administrators Inc., et al., No. 18-15089, 9th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 5846)....