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DOL Settlements Remind Employers to Avoid Collecting Premiums Until Evidence of Insurability is Approved

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The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced two settlements with major insurance companies this month that highlight the importance of employers avoiding the collection of group life insurance premiums from employees until...more

Saul Ewing LLP

The Friday Five: Five ERISA Litigation Highlights - October 2023

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This month’s Friday Five explores recent decisions that range from the effect on disability benefits when medical records are not provided after two appeals, to a case that examines how an award of death benefits is...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Tyll v. Stanley Black & Decker: When Plan Ambiguity Cost an Employer $4 Million

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An employer learned the full cost of ambiguity when a Connecticut federal district court agreed with an employee’s widow that the word “maximum” was ambiguous in the company’s life insurance plan, thus making the widow...more

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ERISA Administrative Appeal Barred As Untimely

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The First Circuit held that a plaintiff failed to timely exhaust her administrative remedies under a long-term disability plan because the plan’s 180-day time limit for submitting appeals commenced on the date the plaintiff...more

Williams Mullen

Plaintiffs’ Misdirected Demand for Documents Fails, and Their Claim for ERISA Civil Penalties Is Dismissed: Boyd v. Sysco...

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A federal court dismissed the plaintiffs’ claim to recover civil penalties for failure to provide plan documents requested by the plaintiffs. Boyd v. Sysco Corporation, No. 4:13-cv-00599 (D. S. C. September 3, 2015), provides...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

ERISA Preemption Trumps State Insurance Law Yet Again: Ninth Circuit Declines to Apply California’s Insurance Notice-Prejudice...

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In a recent decision, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a Plan participant’s attempt to extend California insurance law’s notice-prejudice rule to self-insured ERISA plans. Zagon v. Am. Airlines, Inc., 2015 BL...more

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