9th Circuit Fixes Ruling Mostly Affirming Claimant’s Victory In ERISA Row

( June 3, 2025, 11:38 AM EDT) -- PASADENA, Calif. — Correcting what the appellant called “an apparent typographical error” in the original May 16 unpublished memorandum disposition, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on June 2 issued an order and amended ruling mostly affirming judgment against a multiemployer health plan in a coverage denial case; the change did not affect the key holding that the appellee hadn’t been given sufficient notice that meeting the plan’s “definition of ‘medical necessity’ required attempting lower levels of care . . . before residential treatment.”...