title: Crushing your health plan's legal protection.
abstract: Enacted in the pre-managed care days, ERISA has shielded health plans from liability in a way the nation's lawmakers may never have intended. The business community watches warily as this blanket protection erodes.
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Coleman
mesh_terms: D019461:Employee Retirement Income Security Act / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D016365:Liability, Legal; D008318:Malpractice / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000592:standards; D011050:Policy Making; D011057:Politics; D014481:United States