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Article: Rep. Andrews Introduces Bill Concerning Employee Welfare Benefit Plan
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- May 27, 2008
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AMBRESH RANJAN
US Fed News
WASHINGTON, May 27 -- Rep. Robert E. Andrews, D-New Jersey, has introduced a bill (H.R. 6142) to "amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide, in the case of an employee welfare benefit plan providing benefits in the event of disability, an exemption from preemption under such title for state tort actions to recover damages arising from the failure of the plan to timely provide such benefits."
The bill, introduced on May 22, was co-sponsored by Rep. George Miller, D-California. It was referred to the House Education and Labor Committee.
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