Mealey's ( March 16, 2026, 2:01 PM EDT) -- NEWARK, N.J. — In a lawsuit brought by a medical testing lab seeking reimbursement from health insurers for COVID-19 testing, a New Jersey federal judge on March 13 dismissed state law counterclaims by the insurers related to fraudulent overbilling with prejudice and counterclaims based on duplicative billing and billing for ancillary tests without prejudice but left in place overpayment claims sought under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)....