Thursday, March 11, 2021
The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld an award of attorneys’ fees payable by a health plan sponsor to the plan administrators that the plan sponsor had sued.
See Central Valley Ag Cooperative, et al. v. Leonard, et al., Nos. 19-3044 and 20-1378, Eighth Circuit (Feb. 1, 2021). The plan sponsor aggressively pursued meritless Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) claims.
Central Valley Ag Cooperative, an agricultural cooperative, sued several defendants that provided marketing and administrative services to Central Valley’s self-funded health plans. Beginning in 2015, a third-party administrator, The Benefits Group (TBG), would receive participants’ medical bills and forward certain bills to a reviewing company, Anasazi Medical Payment Solutions, Inc. (AMPS). AMPS would then review the bills and recommend to TBG how much of the original bill should be paid. TBG sent the recommendation to Central Valley, and
Paul Brassil of
Medfield has joined the company as senior vice president/chief information officer and will oversee PCU’s information technology and digital innovation efforts.
Brassil has more than 25 years of experience in the information technology leadership field with entities such as Commonwealth Medicine (a division of UMass Medical School), the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, EMC Corp. and Siemens IT Solutions and Services Inc.
He holds an MS in computer information systems from Bentley University in
Waltham and a BA in Business Administration from Bridgewater State University.
Brassil s community involvement spans initiatives focused on workforce development and industry leadership serving as a member of the Tech Hire Advisory Group of Boston’s Private Industry Council (comprised of Boston CIOs developing summer intern programs for low/moderate income students in the Boston Public Schools); an adviser for Fintech Women (helping women in banking/finance/fintech a
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Superior Industries Announces the Retirement of James S. McElya From the Board of Directors
February 18, 2021 GMT
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (BUSINESS WIRE) Feb 18, 2021
Superior Industries International, Inc. (NYSE:SUP), one of the world’s leading aluminum wheel suppliers for OEMs and the European aftermarket, today announced the retirement of James S. McElya from Superior’s Board of Directors. Mr. McElya will not stand for re-election at the Company’s 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. He will continue to serve through the remainder of his current term.
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The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit upheld an award of attorneys’ fees payable by a health plan sponsor to the plan administrators that the plan sponsor had sued.
See Central Valley Ag Cooperative, et al. v. Leonard, et al., Nos. 19-3044 and 20-1378, Eighth Circuit (Feb. 1, 2021). The plan sponsor aggressively pursued meritless Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) claims.
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Central Valley Ag Cooperative, an agricultural cooperative, sued several defendants that provided marketing and administrative services to Central Valley’s self-funded health plans. Beginning in 2015, a third-party administrator, The Benefits Group (TBG), would receive participants’ medical bills and forward certain bills to a reviewing company, Anasazi Medical Payment Solutions, Inc. (AMPS). AMPS would then review the bills and recommend to TBG how much of the original bill should be paid. TBG sent the rec