This month’s Friday Five addresses two cases involving disability claims that touch on Covid-19, a Circuit Court ruling for an insurer, a district court ruling that a 20-year-old regulatory settlement precluded an insurer...more
This month’s Friday Five addresses cases considering: (1) whether monetary relief in the amount of lost benefits is an available remedy for breach of fiduciary duty; (2) the validity of an ex-spouse’s beneficiary designation...more
This month’s Friday Five explores two decisions concerning claims for breach of fiduciary duty arising from subrogation, exhaustion of administrative remedies, a challenge to the calculation of benefits and alleged violation...more
This month's Friday Five covers recent cases addressing: (1) the scope of ERISA’s administrative exhaustion requirement; (2) whether ERISA permits a claim for “equitable estoppel through silence”; (3) the reasonableness of an...more
This month's Friday Five covers recent cases addressing: (1) the propriety of a remand for an administrative determination regarding a claimant's "any occupation" disability claim; (2) the viability of breach of fiduciary...more
This month’s Friday Five covers cases that explore a variety of situations where courts consider what level of deference, if any, they must provide in reviewing decisions made by ERISA fiduciaries....more
Invasion of Privacy Claim Preempted by ERISA. A Western District of Pennsylvania court granted the administrator’s Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss the plaintiff’s invasion of privacy claim as preempted by ERISA. ...more