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Survivor Benefits Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)

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District Court Rejects Reasonableness Requirement for “Actuarial Equivalence” Used to Calculate Alternative Annuities

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On March 4, 2022, the District Court for the District of Massachusetts dismissed, pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 56, ERISA claims brought by a former employee who retired early at the age of 62 and receives retirement benefits...more

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Ninth Circuit Concludes Domestic Partner Entitled To Benefits

The Ninth Circuit concluded that a plan fiduciary abused its discretion in denying survival benefits to a pension plan participant’s domestic partner. In so ruling, the Court explained that the plan’s choice of law provisions...more

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Ninth Circuit Rules that a Domestic Partner Under California State Law Was a Spouse for an ERISA Plan

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In an unpublished decision dated May 16, 2019, the Ninth Circuit held that a plan administrator abused its discretion by denying surviving spouse benefits under an ERISA retirement benefit plan to a participant’s domestic...more

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Second Circuit Speaks On When Ministerial Acts Can Breach a Fiduciary Duty

The Second Circuit recently held that alleged misrepresentations by a “ministerial” plan representative about plan benefits will not support a claim for breach of fiduciary duty if the SPD clearly provides “complete and...more

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Seventh Circuit Holds That ERISA Does Not Pre-empt Illinois Slayer Statute

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• In Laborers' Pension Fund v. Miscevic, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that the Illinois slayer statute is one state statute that is not pre-empted by ERISA. A slayer statute is a law that prevents an...more

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