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Roberts Disability Law Blog
Ninth Circuit Vacates Class Relief Against UnitedHealth for Alleged ERISA Claims-Processing Violations of Lactation Benefit Claims
In Condry v. UnitedHealth Grp., Inc., No. 20-16823, __F.App’x__, 2021 WL 4225536 (9th Cir. Sept. 16, 2021), a now partially settled class action dispute over the payment of out-of-network lactation…
Employee Benefits
Locke Lord QuickStudy: What Employers Should Consider Before Charging Higher Group Medical Insurance Premiums for Unvaccinated Employees
On August 23, 2021, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first COVID-19 vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19 disease in individuals 16 years of age and older. The…
Race and the Law Prof Blog
The ACA’S NINE LIVES. IMPACT ON MINORITY POPULATIONS. By Chris Ogolla.
By Ogolla
On June 17, 2021, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka ACA, survived yet another challenge at the Supreme Court. As originally enacted, the ACA had several key provisions,…
PrawfsBlawg
SCOTUS, standing, and HB8
Main Sunday, June 27, 2021SCOTUS, standing, and HB8SCOTUS decided two significant standing cases this Term, both with implications for challenges to Texas's HB8 fetal-heartbeat law.California v. Texas (ACA) reaffirms that…
Healthcare Law Blog
Not with a Bang, But a Whimper—Supreme Court Kicks Latest ACA Challenge for Lack of Standing
By Xavier Baker
On June 17, 2021, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its opinion in California v. Texas (No. 19-840) and Texas v. California (No. 19-1019), holding 7-2 (Justice Breyer,…
Health Care and Life Sciences
Health Care Providers with Claims Arising Out of New York’s Failed Health Republic Insurance Co. to Be Paid in Full
By Wendy G. Marcari, Jackie Selby
In December 2015, we wrote about the many failed health insurance co-ops created under the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”), and the impact of those failures on providers and other creditors,…
PrawfsBlawg
Fed Courts Day at SCOTUS
Main Monday, May 17, 2021Fed Courts Day at SCOTUSMonday was the seemingly annual day in which the Court drops multiple Fed Courts decisions.• CIC Servs. v. IRS held unanimously that…
Religion Clause
Denial of Insurance Coverage For Gender Dysphoria Violates ACA
In Pritchard v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois, (WD WA, May 4, 2021), a Washington federal district court held that denying a transgender male insurance coverage for treatment of…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Expanding Post-Partum Medicaid Is a Step in the Right Direction but More Remains To Be Done
By Genevieve Marcy (April 22, 2021)The Biden administration has touted the American Rescue Plan as “one of the most progressive pieces of legislation in history.” Included in the legislation is…
Health Law Prof Blog
Access to Health Care and Mental Health – Evidence from the ACA Preexisting Conditions Provision
Matt Hampton (University of Northern Iowa), Otto Lenhart (University of Strathclyde), Access to Health Care and Mental Health – Evidence from the ACA Preexisting Conditions Provision, SSRN:This study evaluates the…