In a 6-2 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Vermont law that would've required health insurers to provide a variety of information about claims to the state. The majority ruled that the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) prohibited the state’s action.
“ERISA expressly pre-empts ‘any and all State laws insofar as they may now or hereafter relate to any employee benefit plan,’” stated the opinion, authored by Chief Justice John Roberts.
The decision found that the preemption imposed by federal law was necessary to prevent duplicative reporting requirements that create “administrative waste” and “threaten to subject plans to wide-ranging liability.”
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