11th Circuit Confronts Fight Over Insurance Payback Demands

From: Dean Huffman . (dean@thehuffpeople.net)
Fri Nov 18 12:32:23 2005


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11th Circuit Confronts Fight Over Insurance Payback Demands

Fulton County Daily Report

When a car crash killed Vincente Carillo's wife and injured his son, the family's health insurance paid the medical bill. But after the Carillos obtained $125,000 in a personal injury suit, the insurer demanded they hand over the winnings. On Tuesday, the 11th Circuit wrestled with an issue that has divided other federal appeals courts: whether federal law permits health benefit plans to require reimbursement for medical bills paid to beneficiaries who collected money from related personal injury suits.

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