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Category: Life Insurance
21 Apr 2019
Your ERISA Watch – Court Holds that Brooklyn Public Library Disability Plan is Not Subject to ERISA Governmental Plan Exemption
This week’s notable decision is Skornick v. Principal Financial Group, et al., No. 18-CV-4324 (CS), 2019 WL 1723741 (S.D.N.Y. Apr. 18, 2019), where the court determined that a group disability benefit policy purchased through Defendant Brooklyn Public Library (“the Library”)…
28 Jan 2019
Your ERISA Watch – Employer Must Pay Dependent Life Insurance Benefits to Employee Due to Failure to Provide Summary Plan Description
Today’s notable decision is a good one on equitable remedies, made possible by CIGNA Corp. v. Amara, 563 U.S. 421 (2011). In Snitselaar v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America, 2019 WL 279995 (N.D. Iowa Jan. 22, 2019), Unum denied…
19 Nov 2018
Your ERISA Watch – District Court Rules State Law Claims Concerning Payment of Life Insurance Benefits Not Preempted by ERISA
Today’s notable decision is a district court decision in the matter of Flinn v. Minnesota Life Insurance Company, No. CV 18-10868-WGY, 2018 WL 5982021 (D. Mass. Nov. 14, 2018), a case involving the delivery of life insurance benefits to the…
15 Oct 2018
Your ERISA Watch – Sixth Circuit Holds No Breach of Fiduciary Duty for Failing to Inform Participant of Life Insurance Conversion Right
This week’s notable decision is Vest v. Resolute FP US Inc., No. 18-5046, __F.3d__, 2018 WL 4905751 (6th Cir. Oct. 10, 2018). The court affirmed the district court’s ruling that Plaintiff did not adequately plead a breach-of-fiduciary-duty cause of action…
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