Legal Opinion
Lincoln General Hospital v. Blue Cross/blue Shield of Nebraska
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 24, 1992No. 91-1777PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.
Lincoln General Hospital appeals from a grant of summary judgment in favor of Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Nebraska on the hospital’s claim for payment of a bill for the treatment of Delores Phillips. The District Court 1 held that Blue Cross did not violate the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (“COBRA”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1161 et seq., in administering the health plan of Mrs. Phillips’s ex-husband, Roy Phillips. In addition, the Court held that Blue Cross did not violate its fiduciary duties as plan administrator and that it did not act in an arbitrary and…
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