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Supreme Court Clarifies Subrogation Rights for Health Plans

Summer 2006
Susan E. Bernstein | Mark E. Brossman | David M. Cohen | Laurence M. Moss | Ronald E. Richman | Holly H. Weiss
Employment & Employee Benefits Developments - Summer 2006

A health insurance plan can recover medical expenses it has paid on behalf of a plan beneficiary injured in an accident who subsequently receives monetary damages from third parties, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled. In Sereboff v. Mid Atlantic Medical Services, Inc., the Court issued a decision that gives new life to the enforceability of health plan subrogation provisions.