The Eastern District of Pennsylvania’s decision in Staropoli v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company et al., 2020 WL 3051434 (E.D. Penn. June 8, 2020) demonstrates that even the payment of premiums, full disclosure of facts, and receiving confirmation that benefits are…

When the United States Supreme Court decided CIGNA Corp. v. Amara, 563 U.S. 421 (2011), it educated us all by citing to doctrines of equity from cases and horn books written 200 years ago. This week, the Second Circuit’s decision…

There were no notable circuit court decisions this past week, so we have chosen to highlight two published district court decisions from matters involving disability claims. The first is favorable to plan participants and the second is not. Is it…

This week’s notable decision is a district court order in Auwae v. Metro. Life Ins. Co., No. 19-CV-02504-RBJ, 2020 WL 996874 (D. Colo. Mar. 2, 2020), a matter challenging the applicability of an ERISA life insurance policy’s two-year suicide exclusion.…