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Effective January 1, 2022, the “No Surprises Act” signed into U.S. law as part of H.R. 133, “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021,” implicates (1) emergency services provided by non-participating providers at participating facilities; (2) non-emergency services performed by non-participating providers during a visit at certain participating facilities; and (3) air ambulance services. The law establishes maximum patient out-of-pocket amounts, which generally cannot be more than the amount that would have been charged to the patient had the services been provided by a participating provider or facility. It also prohibits balance billing, but creates an advance beneficiary notice (ABN)-like process applicable to services furnished by non-participating providers at participating facilities to permit providers to balance bill under certain circumstances. Additionally, the law establishes an Independent Dispute Resoluti
Penn will pay $13 million to settle class action lawsuit over excessive retirement plan fees
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Tractable Inks Deals with The Hartford, Mitchell
Tractable, a London-based insurtech that uses artificial intelligence to create damage estimates from photographs, has expanded its presence in the US property and casualty market with two deals announced this week.
Tractable has formed a partnership with Mitchell to use the San Diego-based claims administrator’s collision repair data in its platform. Tractable also announced that The Hartford has signed on with Tractable to analyze auto damage claims.
“Tractable’s AI acts as a human appraiser, using proprietary computer vision to examine photos of vehicle damage and return a list of part-level repair operations seconds after photos are submitted,” the company said in a press release.
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2020 ERISA Litigation Trends Hint At What s Ahead This Year
Law360 (January 3, 2021, 12:02 PM EST) By any measure, 2020 was a record-setting year for litigation under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. The U.S. Supreme Court issued four ERISA decisions, more than it has issued in a single year in the 45-year history of the statute.
And just over 200 new ERISA class actions were filed, an all-time record that represents a 80% increase over the number of ERISA class actions filed in 2019 and more than double the number filed in 2018.
As 2021 begins, this trend shows no sign of slowing down, with important developing issues related to fee and performance litigation for smaller.
Key Cases
In
Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, N.Y. v. Cuomo,
No. 20A87, 2020 WL 6948354 (U.S. Nov. 25, 2020) (per curiam), the
U.S. Supreme Court enjoined enforcement of the 10- and 25-person
occupancy limits on churches in New York Executive Order 202.68,
pending appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
This was an abrupt shift for the court as compared with two cases
reported on previously:
Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley v.
Sisolak, 140 S.Ct. 203 (2020) (see Holland & Knight s
Religious Institutions Update: October 2020)
and
South Bay Pentecostal Church v. Newsom, 140 S.Ct. 1613
(2020) (see Holland & Knight s Religious Institutions Update: July 2020). The
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