August 17, 2022
The Fifth Circuit on Wednesday agreed with a Texas federal court's determination that federal benefits law covered a company's offering of health insurance to individuals in exchange for their user data, ruling that the U.S. Department of Labor had arbitrarily found the plan to be exempt.
January 05, 2022
The Fifth Circuit appeared skeptical Wednesday of the U.S. Department of Labor's challenge to a ruling that federal benefits law covered a company's offering of health insurance to individuals in exchange for their user data, lobbing questions that indicated the court might avoid tackling whether the insured individuals qualified as employees.
April 08, 2021
A coalition of states urged the Fifth Circuit on Wednesday to reverse a lower court's decision that a data company's health plan — which provides insurance to users who agree to let the company track their data — is covered by ERISA.