Over the past year and a half, courts across the U.S. have been voiding settlement agreements, or refusing to enforce them, when the parties did not have a true meeting of the minds on terms aimed at addressing their obligations under the Medicare Secondary Payer Act, 42 U.S.C. §1395y(b), including Section 111 of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007.

Read more about this developing area of law on The Whisper, a publication of DRI.