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  1. Third Circuit Reverses Penalty Award for Failure to Produce Plan Documents: Clear Notice Test Not Satisfied
    From the May 17, 2007 EBIA Weekly
    We reported on the trial court’s decision in this case awarding penalties for failure to produce requested retirement plan documents (see our article at http://www.ebia.com/WeeklyArchives/ERISA/CourtCases/18085 (Premium Access subscription required)). The case ...
    [Kollman v. Hewitt Assoc., 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 11272 (3d Cir. 2007)]
  2. Officer Paid and Directed Through Management Agreement Was Not an Eligible Employee
    From the April 26, 2007 EBIA Weekly
    After being injured in a snowboarding accident, the physician in this case made a claim for disability benefits under a policy issued to a company of which he was part owner. The physician’s duties as the company’...
    [Hillstrom v. Kenefick, 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 8174 (8th Cir. 2007)]
  3. Employer's Failure to Enroll Dependent Is Fiduciary Breach, but ERISA Provides No Remedy for Affected Plan Participant
    From the April 19, 2007 EBIA Weekly
    The participant in this case sought to have her daughters added as dependents under her employer’s insured health plan. After the employer submitted the enrollment form to the plan’s insurer, the insurer requested additional information about ...
    [Hughes v. Legion Ins. Co., 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 17255 (S.D. Tex. 2007)]
  4. TPA and Excess Loss Insurer Did Not Exercise Discretion and Were Not Plan Fiduciaries
    From the April 12, 2007 EBIA Weekly
    After a participant’s self-insured health plan denied benefits arising from injuries sustained during a home invasion, the participant sued his employer, the plan’s TPA, and the plan’s excess loss insurer under ERISA for ...
    [Sparks v. Duckrey Enterprises, Inc., 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 6540 (E.D. Pa. 2007)]
  5. ERISA Plan Must Consider Mailbox Rule in Resolving Dispute About Receipt of Required Paperwork From Plan Participant
    From the April 12, 2007 EBIA Weekly
    This case involved a pension plan participant whose claim for a lump-sum pension payment was denied because, according to the plan, the required election form was received ten days after the deadline. In denying the claim, the plan administrator ...
    [Kuchar v. AT&T Pension Ben. Plan-Midwest Program, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 18141 (N.D. Ill. 2007)]
  6. Law Firm Partners Cannot Sue Under ERISA for Lost Retiree Health Benefits
    From the March 29, 2007 EBIA Weekly
    In this case, a group of retired law firm partners filed an ERISA claim against their former law firm when the law firm discontinued payment of health care coverage for “all employees and partners, both active and retired.” ...
    [Hayes v. Lacey & Jones, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 17342 (E.D. Mich. 2007)]
  7. Erroneous Personalized Enrollment Worksheet Is Not Enforceable
    From the March 22, 2007 EBIA Weekly
    This is a follow-up decision to one we reported on last year, involving a dispute about life insurance coverage that arose from errors in an employer’s open enrollment materials (see our article at http://www.ebia.com/...
    [Crosby v. Rohm & Haas Co., 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 6084 (6th Cir. 2007)]
  8. Trial Court Allows Lawsuit to Proceed for Losses Resulting From Unreasonable Plan Fees
    From the March 22, 2007 EBIA Weekly
    The plan participants in this case alleged that the plan sponsor (and other individuals and entities associated with the plan sponsor) breached its fiduciary duties to the participants by causing or allowing the plan’s investment managers and other ...
    [Loomis v. Exelon Corp., No. 06 C4900 (N.D. Ill. Feb. 21, 2007)]
  9. Plan Participants in Fiduciary Breach Suit May Obtain Draft Communications Regarding Benefit Plan Changes
    From the March 08, 2007 EBIA Weekly
    The employees in this case sued the directors of their bankrupt employer for fiduciary breach based on failure to fund benefit plans, claiming, among other things, that they deceptively drew up a new plan that purported to cancel certain duties ...
    [Baker v. Kingsley, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 8375 (N.D. Ill. 2007)]
  10. Criminal Restitution Order Under MVRA Overrides ERISA, but When Must a Plan Satisfy an Order?
    From the March 01, 2007 EBIA Weekly
    In this appeal, the full 15-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit reconsidered the earlier decision of a three-judge panel (see our article at http://www.ebia.com/WeeklyArchives/401k/CourtCases/18429 (Premium Access subscription required)) and reaffirmed that ...
    [United States v. Novak, 2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 3804 (9th Cir. 2007) (en banc)]

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