Judge: Medicare Post-1980 Asbestos Reporting Cases Can’t Stay In Federal Court

Mealey's (January 23, 2023, 9:51 AM EST) -- DETROIT — A dispute over whether the Medicare Secondary Payor law mandates reporting seven asbestos cases alleging post-1980 exposures but whose settlements involve only pre-1980 exposures does not create federal jurisdiction because the state-law claims do not involve a federal issue, even where the plaintiffs moved for an injunction preventing the reporting, a federal judge in Michigan said in remanding the cases....