Legal Opinion
New York State Psychiatric Ass'n v. Unitedhealth Group
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided October 31, 2013No. 13 Civ. 1599 CMPublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER GRANTING DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS AND DENYING PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION
McMAHON, District Judge:
PRELIMINARY STATEMENT
This is essentially a denial of benefits case under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”) (29 U.S.C. § 1001 et. seq). It is brought by a polyglot group of unrelated plaintiffs who either (1) applied to their employer-sponsored health plans (and in one case, to a non-ERISA plan offered by the State of New York) for reimbursement of the cost of mental health care or substance abuse treatment (plaintiffs Denbo, Smith,…
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