This week’s notable decision is another claimant-unfriendly opinion out of the Fourth Circuit neck of the woods – Dawson-Murdock v. National Counseling Group, Inc., et al., No. 3:18-CV-58, 2018 WL 3744020 (E.D. Va. Aug. 7, 2018). In this case, Plaintiff…

This week’s notable decision is White v. Life Insurance Company Of North America, No. 17-30356, __F.3d__, 2018 WL 2978641 (5th Cir. June 13, 2018), a dispute over life insurance benefits based on the application of an exclusion for death caused…

This week’s notable decision results from a series of unfortunate events.  It also highlights an issue plan administrators and participants should be aware of when there is a switch of group life insurance policies.  In Cole v. American Heritage Life Insurance Company,…

This week’s notable decision is Metlife Life & Annuity Co. of Connecticut v. Akpele, No. 16-15677, __F.3d__, 2018 WL 1527147 (11th Cir. Mar. 29, 2018), an interpleader action brought by MetLife to determine the proper beneficiary to the proceeds of…