A Manhattan State Supreme Court Justice hearing objections to the city's moving 250,000 retirees' health coverage to a Medicare Advantage plan Oct. 21 ruled it could not require them to make a choice on participating in the program by Oct. 31, citing an "irrational" plan for implementation of the controversial shift.
That ruling by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Lyle E. Frank came shortly after he issued another ruling dismissing a lawsuit brought by the losing bidder for the contract to provide coverage to those retirees for at least the next five years, concluding that the decision by the Office of Labor Relations to pick a consortium of providers was "rational."
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