( August 21, 2026, 11:21 AM EDT) -- CINCINNATI — Affirming dismissal of a suit that medical providers filed against the sponsor and the administrator of a self-insured health plan, the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said that under a 1991 decision that one panel member explicitly criticized, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act expressly preempts “third-party healthcare providers’ negligent-misrepresentation and promissory-estoppel claims when those claims arise out of an ERISA-plan administrator’s oral assurances about the terms of coverage or reimbursement under an ERISA-governed plan.”...