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- Supreme Court: Insurer's Conflict in Evaluating and Paying Claims Is a Factor That Reviewing Court Must Consider
- From the June 19, 2008 EBIA Weekly
- The U.S. Supreme Court has held that an insurer’s dual role in deciding and paying claims for benefits creates a conflict of interest that a court should consider when determining whether the insurer abused its discretion by ...
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- Plan Language Required Dismissal of Fiduciary Breach Claim Based on Alleged Misclassification of Employees as Exempt
- From the June 12, 2008 EBIA Weekly
- The employees in this case alleged that their employer, a provider of group health plans, misclassified them as exempt employees when they should have been classified as non-exempt employees entitled to overtime pay under the state and federal fair ...
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- Beneficiary Designation Form Not Valid When Participant Did Not Sign and Date It
- From the June 12, 2008 EBIA Weekly
- In this dispute over an incomplete beneficiary designation form, the trial court upheld the plan administrator’s determination that the unsigned and undated form was not valid. When the participant in this case died, he had two beneficiary designation ...
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- Plan's One-Year Time Limit for Filing Benefit Lawsuits Is Unenforceable Unless Disclosed in Denial Notice
- From the June 12, 2008 EBIA Weekly
- The trial court in this case refused to enforce an ERISA plan’s one-year time limit for filing benefit lawsuits against a participant who was not notified of the limit in her benefit denial notice. (The participant had ...
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- Court Suspends Deadline for Filing Lawsuit While Participant Exhausted Plan's Administrative Appeals
- From the May 22, 2008 EBIA Weekly
- After her LTD benefits were terminated, the participant in this case filed an administrative appeal. Two years after the appeal was denied—and more than three years after the termination of her benefits—the participant sued the plan. ...
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- Court Adopts Prudence Presumption in Stock Drop Case: No Fiduciary Breach for Failure to Divest Employer Stock
- From the May 22, 2008 EBIA Weekly
- This case was brought by participants in a 401(k) plan after the employer disclosed that it had engaged in sham transactions and the price of its stock dropped about 40 percent in one week. The participants claimed that the ...
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- Prison Sentences Upheld for Unpaid Plan Contributions Under ERISA Theft Statute
- From the May 08, 2008 EBIA Weekly
- Over a two-year period, the corporate executives in this case (a CEO and CFO) failed to make required contributions to the company’s retirement plans and failed to use employee health plan contributions to pay benefits under that ...
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- No Fiduciary Liability for Employer or HR Representative Who Gave Participant Inaccurate Benefit Information
- From the April 24, 2008 EBIA Weekly
- The pension plan participant in this case received estimates that overstated the amount of his benefit. The participant later sued to obtain the higher benefit amount, claiming that an HR employee breached his fiduciary duty by giving an incorrect estimate ...
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- Terminated Employee Who Needed Surgery May Proceed With ERISA Section 510 Interference Claim
- From the April 17, 2008 EBIA Weekly
- The employee in this case was told by his doctor that he would need surgery. A few days after informing his employer of the intended surgery, the employee was terminated due to “lack of work” (though the employer ...
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- Failure to Disclose Revenue Sharing Not a Fiduciary Breach but May Jeopardize ERISA Section 404(c) Relief
- From the March 06, 2008 EBIA Weekly
- In this case, participants in a 401(k) plan sued the plan sponsor, the trustee, and an investment advisor affiliate of the trustee, claiming that all had committed fiduciary breaches in connection with revenue sharing payments that the affiliated investment ...
