Expert Q&A on Health Plan Reimbursements After the US Supreme Court's Montanile Decision | Practical Law
An Expert Q&A with John Houston Pope of Epstein Becker & Green, P.C., on the implications for employers of the US Supreme Court's ruling in Montanile v. Board of Trustees of the National Elevator Industry Health Benefit Plan, 136 S.Ct. 651 (2016). In Montanile, the Court held that an employee benefit plan could not recover, through a suit under ERISA Section 502(a)(3), reimbursement from a participant who obtains a settlement fund from a third party but spends the whole settlement on nontraceable items, such as food.