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Insurance Claim – Provider Agreement – Arbitration

By: Derek Hawkins//September 26, 2021//

Insurance Claim – Provider Agreement – Arbitration

By: Derek Hawkins//September 26, 2021//

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7th Circuit Court of Appeals

Case Name: Dr. Robert L. Meinders, D.C., Ltd., v. United Healthcare Services, Inc., et al.,

Case No.: 20-2832

Officials: MANION, ST. EVE, and KIRSCH, Circuit Judges.

Focus: Insurance Claim – Provider Agreement – Arbitration

In 2013, Dr. Robert L. Meinders, D.C., Ltd., received a single fax advertisement from United Healthcare Services, Inc., a company with whom Meinders had done business for around seven years. Meinders believed that, by sending the fax, United violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. Accordingly, Meinders sued, and after seven years of litigation, a threshold question remains: Should the litigation proceed in federal court, or should United be allowed to force Meinders to arbitrate? The answer to that question turns primarily on resolving whether United assumed the duties that a related company, American Chiropractic Network, Inc., promised to perform for Meinders in a provider agreement.

The district court held that United had assumed ACN’s obligations and as a result could enforce an arbitration clause Meinders had agreed upon with ACN. We agree with the district court, and thus affirm.

Affirmed

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Derek A Hawkins is Corporate Counsel, at Salesforce.

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