United States Third Circuit

In ERISA cases involve reimbursement in connection with services from out-of-network medical providers, an order certifying the underlying consolidated matters as class actions is vacated where the district court erred by failing to define the claims, issues, or defenses to be treated on a class basis.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/15/2005
• Decided 06/30/2006
• Published 06/30/2006

Judges

• SMITH, Circuit Judge., Before SLOVITER, SMITH, and VAN ANTWERPEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Peter Buscemi (Argued), Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Washington, DC, Theodore D. Aden, Herve Gouraige, Epstein, Becker & Green, Newark, NJ, John J. Gibbons, Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, Newark, NJ, Joseph B.G. Fay, Jay H. Calvert, Jr., Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia, PA, William S. Greenberg, B. John Pendleton, Jr., McCarter & English, Newark, NJ, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Stanley M. Grossman (Argued), D. Brian Hufford, Pomerantz, Haudek, Block, Grossman & Gross, New York, NY, Stuart M. Feinblatt, Sills, Cummis, Epstein & Gross, Newark, NJ, for Appellees., Mary Ellen Signorille, American Associations of Retired Persons, Washington, DC, for Amicus-Appellee.