Tango Transport v. Healthcare Financial Services LLC

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that an assignment reading “I hereby assign payment of hospital benefits directly to Mississippi Baptist Medical Center herein specified and otherwise payable to me” encompassed the right to sue the insurer
• finding that the assignee of a plan participant has derivative standing to bring a cause of action for enforcement under ERISA
• noting that “denying derivative standing to health care providers would harm participants or beneficiaries”
• stating that “this Court, like many of our sister Circuits, recognizes derivative standing which permits suits in the context of ERISA-governed employee welfare benefit plans, to be brought by certain non-enumerated parties”
• collecting 3 cases from other circuits on derivative standing in general
• discussing standing under a federal statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).