Case: Health & Welfare Benefits/Class Actions (D. Minn.)

A family accusing Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota of wrongfully clawing back patients’ approved benefit payments hasn’t established a basis for class certification, the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota held. “The question of whether Blue Cross was entitled to offset is answered by the plan documents, and the putative class members belong to 84 different ERISA plans, an unknown number of which have different controlling plan documents with different plan language that will need to be analyzed to determine the outcome of each class member’s claims,” the court said. The family incurred more than $80,000 ...