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USCIS, Dec. 28, 2021 - "If you are a healthcare worker Who has a pending Employment Authorization Document (EAD) renewal application (Form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization); and Whose EAD is expiring within 30 days or less...

SALT LAKE CITY - A federal judge in Utah on Jan. 13 remanded to the liquidation court an insolvent health insurer's liquidator's breach of fiduciary and negligence lawsuit against the insurer's executives because the executives failed to establish...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge on Oct. 31 dismissed for lack of jurisdiction insolvent insurer liquidators' state law claims against the U.S. government over violation of South Carolina insurance law following the government's...

ATLANTA - An insurer with discretionary authority did not err when it denied coverage for two-level spinal fusion surgery under the plan's exclusion on experimental procedures, an 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held Oct. 24 in rejecting...

NEW ORLEANS - The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied a motion for rehearing Oct. 10, letting stand a decision finding a health care plan's anti-assignment provision prevented a health care provider from suing an insurer (Dialysis Newco Inc...

DALLAS - A limited partnership filed suit in Texas federal court on Oct. 4, seeking to force the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to issue an advisory opinion declaring that the self-insured health plan it offers common-law employees and limited partners...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 7 denied a health care insurer's petition for review, leaving stand a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling finding that direct payments to a provider waived an Employee Retirement Income Security...

Stuart Anderson, Forbes, Oct. 7, 2019 "On Friday, October 4, 2019, Donald Trump issued a far-reaching presidential proclamation that would bar new immigrants from entering the United States without health insurance. To better understand this new...

Prof. Stephen W. Yale-Loehr in the New York Times : "Thousands of people annually would be denied green cards if the [proclamation] takes effect, said Steve Yale-Loehr, an immigration scholar at Cornell Law School . “President Trump has failed...

White House, Oct. 4, 2019 Presidential Proclamation on the Suspension of Entry of Immigrants Who Will Financially Burden the United States Healthcare System

BROOKLYN, N.Y. - A federal judge in New York on Sept. 27 acquitted a former executive of securities fraud charges arising from his role in a hedge fund scheme to transfer assets to a reinsurance company and related entities to defraud bondholders in an...

NEW ORLEANS - A dialysis provider Sept. 25 asked the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to review a panel ruling finding a health care plan precluded assignment of Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) rights and that the statute preempted...

NEW YORK - Determining whether a class of surgery providers properly obtained an assignment of rights under Employee Retirement Income Security Act plans requires claim-by-claim analysis precluding certification, an insurer tells a New York judge in a...

TRENTON, N.J. - A proposed class of self-insured health plans in which Aetna Life Insurance Co. allegedly imposes undisclosed internal standards for coverage would require access to plan documents the plaintiffs have not submitted, a federal judge in...

CHICAGO - A federal judge in Illinois on Aug. 13 held that she lacked jurisdiction over a case filed by an insolvent health insurer's liquidator against the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the U.S. government in which the liquidator...