Legal Opinion
Diaz v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield
Montana Supreme Court
Decided December 21, 2011No. DA 09-0682PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wheat
¶ 1 The First Judicial District Court, Lewis and Clark County, denied Jeannette Diaz (Diaz) and Leah Hoffmann-Bernhardt’s (HoffmannBernhardt) motion for class certification and concluded third-party administrators of the State of Montana’s (State) employee healthcare benefit plan are not subject to made-whole laws established under § 2-18-901 to -902 and 33-30-1101 to -1102, MCA. Diaz and Hoffmann*153Bernhardt appeal.1
¶2 We affirm in part and reverse in part and remand this matter to the District Court for further proceedings consistent with this Opinion.
BACKGROUND
¶3 The State provides a…
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