March 21, 2023
A New Jersey federal judge tossed a supermarket worker's bid to force a United Food and Commercial Workers health care fund to cover his wife's $581,000 bill for pancreatitis treatment, saying the fund was allowed to deny coverage after doctors linked the condition to alcohol use.
June 15, 2022
A union-represented employee of the Northeast grocery store chain Acme Markets sued the health care fund run by his United Food and Commercial Workers local in New Jersey federal court, saying an improper denial of coverage saddled his family with over half a million dollars in medical bills.