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Medicare secondary payer reporting deadline extended
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- USA
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- February 25 2010
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") has revised the timeline for non-group health plan ("NGHP") reporting under the Medicare secondary payer reporting provisions of Section 111 of the Medicare, Medicaid and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 ("Section 111"
House introduces health insurance bill to repeal antitrust exemption
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- USA
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- February 24 2010
On Monday, February 22, Representatives Tom Perriello (D-Va.) and Betsy Markey (D-Colo.) introduced H.R. 4626, the Health Insurance Industry Fair Competition Act, to repeal the McCarran-Ferguson Act antitrust exemption for the business of health insurance
Ninth Circuit: automobile insurer did not engage in bad faith by refusing to pre-authorize treatment under PIP coverage
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- USA
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- February 2 2010
In Sadler v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, No. 08-35859 (9th Cir. Nov. 4, 2009), the insureds sued their insurer for bad faith, among other claims, arising from their insurer’s refusal to pre-authorize surgery under the personal injury protection (“PIP”) provision of the automobile insurance policy
Last week in DC: the healthcare reform debate February 1, 2010
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- USA
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- February 1 2010
Healthcare reform efforts remained in flux last week, as President Obama sought to repackage his party's priorities in the wake of the shocking Republican victory in Massachusetts on January 19
Supreme Court of Canada considers the meaning of 'accident' under a group policy
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- Canada
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- January 22 2010
In the case of Co-operators Life Insurance v Gibbens, 2009 SCC 59, the insured contracted herpes through unprotected sex and, as a result, developed transverse myelitis, a rare complication of herpes, which left him paralysed from the waist down
Scottish Court rejects insurers' challenge over compensation for pleural plaques
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- United Kingdom
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- January 13 2010
The Scottish Court has upheld legislation that maintains the right to compensation for pleural plaques sufferers in Scotland
Repeal of antitrust exemption gains traction as House and Senate Democrats reconcile healthcare reform bills
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- USA
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- January 8 2010
U.S. House Representatives Peter DeFazio, (D-OR) and Gene Taylor (D-MS) drafted a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in support of repealing the antitrust exemption under the McCarran Ferguson Act for health insurers and medical liability insurers
Court examines duty to defend funeral homes accused of participation in organ harvesting
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- USA
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- December 23 2009
A federal judge in Pennsylvania recently examined whether an insurer must defend a crematorium and funeral home against several lawsuits alleging that they participated in an organ harvesting scheme
Partial repeal of McCarran-Ferguson Act dropped from Senate Health Reform Bill
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- USA
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- December 21 2009
Media reports indicate that Senator Patrick Leahy’s (D-VT) amendment to repeal the antitrust exemption under the McCarran-Ferguson Act for health insurers and medical malpractice insurers, has been removed from the latest version of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590
Last week in DC: the healthcare reform debate
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- USA
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- December 7 2009
The Senate returned from Thanksgiving break last week and resumed consideration of its healthcare reform bill in earnest, debating and voting on several amendments to the legislation
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