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The Friday Five: Five ERISA Litigation Highlights - May 2025

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This month’s Friday Five explores decisions from around the country discussing the concept of reasonableness in various forms. One court rejected the parties’ proffered definitions of the term “working” and instead determined...more

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Case Closed: Overview of Life, Disability, and Long-Term Care Insurance Litigation

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In a split decision, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals recently affirmed summary judgment in PHT Holding I LLC v. Security Life of Denver Insurance Co., rejecting the plaintiff’s claim that the defendant-insurer breached the...more

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Litigation Lineup: Recent Decisions in Life and Disability Insurance Run into Policy Lapse, COVID-19, and Conflict of Interest...

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Life Policy Lapse Shortly Before Insured’s Death - In Simon v. USAA Life Insurance Co. (Mar. 29, 2024), the insurer denied death benefits under a term life insurance policy, which had lapsed for nonpayment of premium two...more

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The Friday Five: Five ERISA Litigation Highlights - August 2023

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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

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What’s the Alternative? Preclusion Doctrines and Alternative Holdings

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit recently confronted the rare intersection of preclusion doctrines and alternative holdings in its decision in Pogue v. Principal Life Ins. Co., 2020 WL 6479662 (6th Cir. Nov. 4,...more

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Notice-Prejudice Rule Applies to Life Insurance Disability Premium Waiver Rider

In Lat v. Farmers New World Life Ins. Co. (No. B282008, filed 10/16/18), a California appeals court held that the notice-prejudice rule precluded a denial of life insurance benefits based on the insured’s failure to give...more

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