Carpenter Co. Ex-Worker Failed to Link Injuries to COBRA Notices

A former E.R. Carpenter Co. employee challenging the company’s COBRA notices as inadequate didn’t show how she’d been injured by the company’s alleged missteps, a Florida federal judge said in a Tuesday order dismissing the case.

The worker failed to show that her alleged injuries—which included lost health insurance coverage, medical bills, and delayed dental procedures—were caused by the purported flaws in Carpenter’s COBRA notices, Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle said. Plaintiff Saroya Marrow criticized the notices for allegedly failing to include legally required information like the due date for choosing COBRA coverage, but she lacks standing to sue because she ...