EBIA Weekly – October 26, 2023
ERISA Compliance for Health & Welfare Plans Abrogating Precedent, Fourth Circuit Narrows Equitable Remedies for Fiduciary Breach A 27-year-old who needed a heart transplant requested approval of the procedure from his employer’s self-insured health plan. After the plan denied his request and subsequent appeals, he died—shortly before an external reviewer overturned the claim denials. The …