Miller & Chevalier Chartered‘s ERISA litigation practice centres around representing clients in ERISA health benefits cases, regularly defending companies, filing amicus briefs, and advising on government investigations and enforcement actions. The practice is distinguished by one client for its ’exceptional knowledge of a very niche area, the Federal Employees Health Benefits Act’. Anthony Shelley is an experienced litigator with deep knowledge of issues surrounding pharmacy benefit administration. Shelley is also singled out for his appellate work.
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‘Miller & Chevalier's lawyers have exceptional knowledge of a very niche area, the Federal Employees Health Benefits Act, as well as extensive experience litigating cases relating to this law. This makes them both the go-to resource for guidance and allows them to litigate cases very efficiently.’
Key clients
- Association of Federal Health Organizations
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee, Inc.
- The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC)
- Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Iowa
- Estate of Phyllis M. Wyeth, through executor James Wyeth
- The American Staffing Association
- America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP)
- Special Agents Mutual Benefits Association (SAMBA)
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota
Work highlights
Represent the New Jersey Staffing Alliance and the American Staffing Association in a challenge to a New Jersey law requiring staffing agencies to provide temporary workers with benefits equal to those of client companies' direct hires.
Represent a coalition of Iowa employers and benefit plans in challenging a new Iowa lawregulating pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) doing business in Iowa that also regulates health benefit plans and those parties who sponsor, administer, and participate in those plans.
Represented the Estate of Phyllis M. Wyeth in litigation involving a dispute over whether a trust established for domestic workers' financial well-being constitutes an ERISA pension planand whether the trust's fiduciaries committed breaches of ERISA fiduciary obligations.
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Anthony Shelley