Princeton Trustees Ask Judge to Toss Health Plan Clawback Suit

Princeton University trustees asked a Pennsylvania federal judge to toss a proposed class action accusing the school’s health plan of wrongfully attempting to claw back certain benefits from plan participants, calling the case the latest in a series of failed lawsuits by the same attorney.

Andre Corbitt’s lawsuit challenges a practice in which the Princeton health plan requires participants to repay the plan for medical benefits that are covered by a personal injury settlement or other third party payment. But this subrogation practice is explicitly authorized by Princeton’s health plan, as Corbitt acknowledges in his complaint, the trustees said in ...