ERISA Litigation: What Benefits and Other Professionals Need to Know

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In This Presentation:

- Stephens v. Citation Corp. (N.D. Ala. 2010) (Acker, J.)

- Erisa Topics Today

- ERISA Preemption: Good or Bad?

- Provident Internal Memorandum re: ERISA, Oct. 2, 1995

- Provident Internal Memorandum re: ERISA, Oct. 2, 1995 (typed)

- Why Does ERISA Favor Employers in Litigation?

- What Does ERISA Preempt?

- Unexpected ERISA Preemption

- Williams v. Wright (11th Cir. 1991)

- Types of ERISA Claims

- Who is an ERISA Fiduciary?

- What are ERISA Fiduciary Duties?

- Tussey v. ABB (8th Cir. 2014) (excessive 401k fees)

- Tibble v. Edison International (9th Cir. 2013) (401k fees)

- Fifth Third Bancorp. v. Dudenhoeffer (6th Cir. 2012) (employer stock)

- Rochow v. Life Ins. Co. of N. Am. (6th Cir. 2013) (damages)

- Attorney-Client Privilege What Law Applies?

- Fiduciary Exception to the Attorney-Client Privilege

- Fiduciary Exception Limitations

- Fiduciary Exception to the Attorney-Client Privilege

- Miscellaneous Employee Benefits Issues?

- Excerpt from Fiduciary Exception Limitations:

Mutual vs. Divergent Interests At final administrative decision: Agreeing with weight of authority, not until after the final administrative appeal do interests of claim fiduciary and beneficiary diverge for purposes of fiduciary exception Stephan v. Unum Life Ins. Co. of America (9th Cir. 2012)

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