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Pharmacy Benefit Managers
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Ogletree Deakins Insights
DOL Final Rule Aims to Increase Drug Price Transparency and Disclosures by PBMs
Quick Hits The DOL’s Employee Benefit Security Administration (EBSA) recently released final rules requiring more financial transparency and disclosures from PBMs to health plans. The rule’s purpose is to give…
Davis+Gilbert PERKS
Improving Transparency into Pharmacy Benefit Manager Fee Disclosure
On Thursday, October 29, 2026, the US Department of Labor finalized a pharmacy benefit manager transparency rule, which is required reading for all employers that sponsor group health plans. …
Hall Benefits Law Blog
Seventh Circuit Upholds Dismissal of Challenge to Arkansas PBM Rule
By Anne Hall
After hearing arguments in April 2026, a Seventh Circuit panel declined to overturn a lower court ruling dismissing a union fund’s challenge to an Arkansas rule affecting pharmacy benefit managers…
Davis+Gilbert PERKS
What the Seventh Circuit’s PBM Decision Means for Self-Insured Health Plans
Sponsors of self-insured health plans should take note of a recent Seventh Circuit case addressing when states can regulate their plans. On August 26, 2026, the Seventh Circuit upheld the…
Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo
FAQ: State PBM Reform in 2026—What's New Since Spring
By Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo
Theresa Carnegie’s insights were featured in a Managed Healthcare Executive FAQ exploring the latest wave of state pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) reform legislation and the compliance challenges facing PBMs and…
Drug & Device Law
More Federal Officer Jurisdiction and PBMs – Second Circuit Finds Jurisdiction
Federal officer jurisdiction is having a moment. In November 2024, we called federal officer jurisdiction the quiet middle child of the federal jurisdiction family, but then earlier this year the…
Your ERISA Watch
Your ERISA Watch – Week of September 2, 2026
Your ERISA Watch was short-handed this week, so while we have the full complement of case summaries, we are forgoing our highlighted case of the week. If you want a…
Your ERISA Watch
Your ERISA Watch – Week of July 29, 2026
Last week was a busy one in the federal courts with an unusual assortment of ERISA issues in the mix. There were no appellate decisions (in contrast to five last…
Roberts Disability Law Blog
Eighth Circuit Holds ERISA Preempts Arkansas’s Geographic Pharmacy Network Adequacy Requirements, Affirming Dismissal of Plan Participant’s Unjust Enrichment Class Action
In Flowers v. Caremark PCS Health, LLC, No. 25-3068, — F.4th —-, 2026 WL 1859929 (8th Cir. June 29, 2026), the Eighth Circuit held that ERISA preempts Arkansas’s geographic pharmacy…
Drug & Device Law
Federal Officer Removal and Pharmacy Benefit Managers
By Bexis
We’ve posted twice recently about the potential jurisdictional benefits of the congressionally expanded “federal officer” basis for federal jurisdiction in tort litigation: 28 U.S.C. §1442 (a)(1). Our first post cited…