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The United States Supreme Court is the highest court of the United States and is charged with interpreting federal law, including the United States Constitution. The Court's docket is largely discretionary with only a limited number of cases granted review each term.  The Court is comprised of one chief justice and eight associate justices, who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate to hold lifetime positions. less -
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The U.S. Supreme Court And Workplace Class Actions

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Seyfarth Synopsis: As profiled in our recent publication of the 13th Annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report, the U.S. Supreme Court’s rulings have a profound impact on employers and the tools they may utilize to...more

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Michigan Health Insurance Claims Assessment Act is Not Preempted by ERISA

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The Sixth Circuit, has decided, on remand from the Supreme Court, that the Michigan Health Insurance Claims Assessment Act (Act) is not preempted by ERISA. The Act imposes a 1 percent tax on all paid claims by insurers or...more

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Health Update - July 2016

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The Vulnerability of Healthcare Information - According to a report the Brookings Institute issued in May 2016, 23% of all data breaches occur in the healthcare industry. Nearly 90% of healthcare organizations had some...more

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A Review of the Supreme Court’s 2015 - 2016 Term

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Last week, the Supreme Court ended its 2015-2016 session under a cloud of uncertainty. On February 22, 2016, Justice Antonin Scalia, the stalwart of the Court’s conservative wing for 30 years, passed away. Justice Scalia’s...more

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Health Update - May 2016

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Actions to Advance Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health - Editor's Note: Children's earliest experiences—both positive and negative—impact their brain formation and in turn their social and emotional, physical,...more

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ERISA Preemption: Don't Tread on my Uniform System of Plan Administration

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On March 1 the U.S. Supreme Court again reinforced the broad preemptive scope of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C.A. §1001. In Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., 136 S. Ct. 936, the court...more

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The ERISA Litigation Newsletter - April 2016

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Editor's Overview - This month we feature three key developments. First, we review the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Gobeille v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co., 136 S. Ct. 936, 947 (2016) wherein the Supreme Court held that a...more

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Employee Benefit Plans and Data Security Issues

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In recent weeks, much of the discussion around a recent Supreme Court case, Gobeille, has focused on ERISA preemption. But for fiduciaries of benefit plans the case can serve as a reminder of important duties that often go...more

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SCOTUS ERISA Cases, Part Two: Preemption of State Healthcare Claims Database

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This is the second article of a three part series summarizing employee benefit issues that are being argued in front of the U.S. Supreme Court during the current October 2015 term. Part One provided an outline of Montanile v....more

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Supreme Court Exempts ERISA Plans from a State Reporting Law

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In Gobeille, Chair of the Vermont Green Mountain Care Board v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., decided on March 1, 2016, the Supreme Court held that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”) preempts...more

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Supreme Court Reaffirms ERISA’s Preemptive Effect as It Overturns State Health Care Law

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In Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual Insurance, the Supreme Court overturned a Vermont law requiring ERISA plans to disclose health payments to the state’s “All Payer Database.” The Court determined that reporting requirements are a...more

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Providers Beware: In ERISA Land, a Right May Not Have a Remedy

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A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision reminds us that straying into the land of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”) can be hazardous for an unwary state or health care provider. When ERISA preempts a...more

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Supreme Court: ERISA Pre-empts Law Requiring Reporting to State Healthcare Database

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In Gobeille v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co., the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) pre-empts a Vermont law that requires healthcare providers, including health insurers and...more

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Supreme Court Rules that ERISA Preempts Vermont Claims Reporting Requirement

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The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) made the regulation of employee benefit plans principally a matter of Federal concern. ERISA broadly and generally preempts—or renders inoperative—state laws that...more

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ERISA Prevents Vermont from Requiring Self-Insured Health Plans to Provide Data Relating to Healthcare

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Vermont and a few other states have adopted so-called “All-Payer Claims Databases” (“APCD”) in an effort to collect financial and other information relating to healthcare for purposes of controlling costs and generally...more

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Collecting Another Supreme Win for ERISA Preemption - Court in Gobeille Invalidates Vermont Data Collection Law

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The U.S. Supreme Court decided the case of Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. last week, in which the Court invalidated a Vermont health care data collection law as being preempted by the Employee Retirement Income...more

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Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation Advisory: Supreme Court Strikes Down Vermont Health Data Reporting Law as Applied to...

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On March 1, 2016, the Supreme Court held that a Vermont law requiring detailed reporting of health data could not be applied to self-funded plans subject to ERISA. In Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, the Court,...more

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Supreme Court Decision Weakens the Reach of State Claims Databases to Self-Insured Plans

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On March 1, 2016, in a 6-2 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held, in Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, that ERISA’s reporting requirements preempted Vermont’s state health care reporting scheme. The case addressed...more

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Manatt on Health Reform: Weekly Highlights - March 2016

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HHS approves waiver extending Medicaid coverage to Flint residents impacted by the water crisis; SCOTUS rules that states cannot require self-insured health plans to provide claims data; and seven insurers sign on to...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Reaffirms ERISA’s Preemption Provisions as Applied to State Health Law Reporting Requirements

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Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., 2016 U.S. LEXIS 1612, underscored the broad extent to which the preemption language of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974...more

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US Supreme Court Reaffirms ERISA Preemption Doctrine

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The Court finds that ERISA preempts the state law “All Payer” data requirement. In a 6–2 decision issued on March 1, the US Supreme Court affirmed a US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit decision holding that the...more

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Cybersecurity and Data Privacy: Big Win for Self-Insured ERISA Plans at Supreme Court (3/16)

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On March 1, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company that delivered a big win for self-insured group health plans. The case involved a challenge to a Vermont law that required...more

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Supreme Court: ERISA Pre-empts Vermont’s Health Data Collection Law as Applied to Self-Insured Health Plans

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In Gobeille v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co., No. 14-181, 2016 U.S. LEXIS 1612 (Mar. 1, 2016), the U.S. Supreme Court held that ERISA pre-empts Vermont’s “all-payer database” law – to the extent it is applied to self-insured health...more

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Supreme Court Concludes That ERISA Preempts State Reporting Requirements

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In a closely observed federalism battle over the scope of ERISA preemption, the Supreme Court came down on the side of Federal power. Specifically, in Gobeille v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, the Court, in a 6-2 ruling,...more

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The Supreme Court - March 2016

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The Supreme Court of the United States issued decisions in two cases on March 1, 2016: Gobeille v. Liberty Mut. Ins. Co., No. 14-181: Respondent Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, which has an “employee welfare benefit...more

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