United States Eleventh Circuit

Under ERISA, a medical insurer could not claim a discounted medical fee that a hospital promised to a third party which "leased" that right to insurer through intermediaries, without knowledge of the hospital or plan beneficiary.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/02/2001
• Published 02/02/2001

Judges

• TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:, Before TJOFLAT, MARCUS and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Elizabeth J. Bondurant,H. Sanders Carter, Jr., Carter & Ansley, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert Jason D'Cruz, Morris, Manning & Martin, Thomas L. Hawker, Hunter, Maclean, Exley & Dunn, P.C., Atlanta, Ga, for Defendant-Appellee.