U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Resolve Circuit Split Over ERISA Plan Reimbursement Rights

On June 25, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review the decision of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in U.S. Airways v. McCutchen. The case concerns the U.S. Airways ERISA welfare benefit plan’s efforts to enforce the plan’s reimbursement provisions, which require plan participants or beneficiaries to reimburse the plan for benefits the plan pays due to injuries caused by third parties out of any settlement fund recovered from a third party or other insurance. Continue reading this entry at Littler's Employee Benefits Counsel.

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