Humana Unable to Decertify Class in Nurse Consultants’ OT Suit

More than 200 clinical nurse advisers may continue to proceed as a group in their Fair Labor Standards Act lawsuit against Humana Insurance Co. after a federal judge in Wisconsin rejected the company’s effort to decertify the collective.

The nurses had different titles, salaries, and job descriptions, but Humana failed to show material factual differences exist in their primary work duties, Judge William C. Griesbach of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin ruled.

The nurses’ core job function was to perform “utilization management,” or review of medical benefit claims, pursuant to Humana’s guidelines, and they followed ...