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    <pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2022 15:28:14 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Congress Contemplates Total Ban on Discretionary Clauses in ERISA Disability, Health Insurance, and Other Benefit Plans</title>
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&lt;h1 style="font-size: 30px; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Congress Contemplates Total Ban on Discretionary Clauses in ERISA Disability, Health Insurance, and Other Benefit Plans&lt;/h1&gt; 
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;A new bill just introduced to Congress could drastically level the playing field for claimants who have been denied group disability, health insurance, and retirement benefits. The “Employee Retiree Access to Justice Act” was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, together with a companion measure in the Senate, on May 12, 2022. The bill intends to ban discretionary authority in employer-sponsored group plans, which are subject to the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/wiki/what-is-erisa-law?utm_campaign=Wiki%20Subscriber%20email&amp;amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;amp;utm_medium=email&amp;amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_IOiswdYnLwlIL62wk_uHKAfGUABqtDSBVuL6GLCiE1YSFeLewFFGOyyBVFo0jIf700Yt1" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;h1 style="font-size: 30px; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Congress Contemplates Total Ban on Discretionary Clauses in ERISA Disability, Health Insurance, and Other Benefit Plans&lt;/h1&gt; 
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;A new bill just introduced to Congress could drastically level the playing field for claimants who have been denied group disability, health insurance, and retirement benefits. The “Employee Retiree Access to Justice Act” was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, together with a companion measure in the Senate, on May 12, 2022. The bill intends to ban discretionary authority in employer-sponsored group plans, which are subject to the&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/wiki/what-is-erisa-law?utm_campaign=Wiki%20Subscriber%20email&amp;amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;amp;utm_medium=email&amp;amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_IOiswdYnLwlIL62wk_uHKAfGUABqtDSBVuL6GLCiE1YSFeLewFFGOyyBVFo0jIf700Yt1" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  
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      <pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2022 13:05:28 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2022-05-26T13:05:28Z</dc:date>
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      <title>LymeDisease.org Features Article by 鶹ӰԺ</title>
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&lt;p&gt;鶹ӰԺ is proud to announce that &lt;a href="https://www.lymedisease.org/"&gt;LymeDisease.org&lt;/a&gt;, one of the nation’s largest Lyme disease patient advocacy groups, recently featured an article written by our associate attorney,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/jennifer-hess/" style="background-color: transparent;"&gt;Jennifer L. Hess, Esq.&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; Click below to read the article:&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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&lt;p&gt;鶹ӰԺ is proud to announce that &lt;a href="https://www.lymedisease.org/"&gt;LymeDisease.org&lt;/a&gt;, one of the nation’s largest Lyme disease patient advocacy groups, recently featured an article written by our associate attorney,&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="/jennifer-hess/" style="background-color: transparent;"&gt;Jennifer L. Hess, Esq.&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; Click below to read the article:&lt;/p&gt;  
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      <category>Illnesses - Lyme Disease</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Dec 2017 15:34:56 GMT</pubDate>
      <author>kprior@jamespublishing.com (Riemer Law Firm)</author>
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      <dc:date>2017-12-27T15:34:56Z</dc:date>
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