Part Of ERISA Putative Class Action Over Tobacco Surcharge Survives Dismissal

( July 30, 2025, 12:58 PM EDT) -- ST. PAUL, Minn. — As the number of recent cases challenging health plans’ so-called tobacco surcharges continues to grow, a Minnesota federal judge on July 29 ruled that one of three claims in a putative class action over such surcharges survives dismissal “to the extent that it is premised on the failure to notify Plan participants that recommendations of an individual’s personal physician will be accommodated.”...