ERISA AND HEALTH INSURANCE IN ALL 50 STATES 2008 THIRD EDITION NOW AVAILBLE

The Third Edition of "ERISA and Health Insurance Subrogation In All 50 States" is finally finished and ready for 2008! It is available through Juris Publishing, Inc. at www.jurispub.com. This edition is the most complete and thorough treatise covering the complex subject of ERISA and health insurance subrogation ever published.

The Third Edition of ERISA And Health Insurance Subrogation In All 50 States contains a great deal of new information, statutory amendments and case decisions. It reflects the changing nature of health insurance subrogation, and emphasizes the areas which have traditionally been weak spots in the subrogation professional's arsenal. Although health insurance subrogation has become unduly complex and confusing over the last six years, the Third Edition goes to great lengths to make the complex understandable, easily digestible and useful, the book is suitable for both the inexperienced health insurance subrogation claims handler and the seasoned veteran.

The Third Edition includes voluminous updates on and fortification of various states' collateral source rules and statutes, including those which serve as anti-subrogation tools. For the twelve states which have some form of automobile no-fault laws, an overview of the laws and its interface with health insurance subrogation has been added, giving the practitioner an advantage in those states where confusing no-fault laws are routinely and wrongly thrown in the path of subrogation plans by trial lawyers. It also contains enhanced descriptions of what constitutes a plan, including legal material and background information on the effect of wrap documents and their role in subrogation. For ERISA-covered plans, the effect of the common fund doctrine and made whole doctrine has been updated thoroughly for each federal appellate circuit. Also, the concepts of complete preemption and conflict preemption, and their role in subrogation health plans are discussed. Finally, the import and treatment of the Ahlborn decision in the Medicaid subrogation arena has also been addressed.

Overall, the Third Edition is a much more potent subrogation tool than its predecessor. ERISA and Health Insurance Subrogation In All 50 States remains the industry's bible on health insurance subrogation and no claims handler, plan administrator, subrogation professional, or lawyer should be without it.

Please see our website or Juris Publishing's website for a detailed summary of the book and a look at its table of contents. If you should have any questions, please e-mail Jamie Breen at jbreen@mwl-law.com.