Windmill Wellness Ranch LLC v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas
A court of the Western District of Texas accepted a magistrate's recommendation to deny motions to dismiss for lack of standing filed by health insurers', holding that despite anti-assignment clauses in some of the plans, the health care provider's joinder of plan beneficiaries as indispensable parties meets the standing requirement and that the beneficiaries need not be named in the suit beyond their initials where the claims are medical in nature and the insurer defendants have the subscriber ID numbers.
health insurance plan, ERISA, FRCP 12(b)(1), standing, assignment, anti-assignment clause, plan beneficiary, joinder, indispensable party
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