EBIA Weekly Archives - ERISA - Court Cases
Below is a list of EBIA Weekly articles in the category you selected.
To change or refine the scope of the articles listed, select a category below or perform a search in the column to the left.
We provide free access to our search engine and to the list of search results. The list will include the headline and an excerpt from each EBIA Weekly article that is retrieved as a result of your search.
The full searchable library of EBIA Weekly articles is available on Newsstand.
per page:
Results (852 articles found)
-
- No Deference to Plan's Decision When Discretionary Authority Given in SPD But Not in Plan Document
- From the April 29, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- The participant in this case was denied benefits under her employer’s LTD plan and sued the plan’s insurer. The trial court applied an abuse of discretion standard—which requires a court to defer to the ...
-
- Deferential Standard of Review Continues to Apply After Plan Administrator's Initial Interpretation Ruled Unreasonable
- From the April 22, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- In this decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the deferential standard of review that generally applies (assuming appropriate plan language) when a court reviews a plan administrator’s interpretation of plan terms also applies to the plan ...
-
- Health Insurance Purchased Through MEWA Was Not an ERISA Plan
- From the April 01, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- This case involves the employee-owner of an insurance agency that was part of a multiple employer trust formed to obtain health insurance for its participating employers (in ERISA terminology, a multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA)). The employee sued the ...
-
- One-Time Severance Payment Was Not Subject to ERISA
- From the March 18, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- The employee in this case sued his former employer in state court alleging that the employer had violated a written agreement to pay the employee a lump-sum payment upon the employee’s constructive discharge from employment. (Under the ...
-
- Insurance Company Not a Proper Defendant in ERISA Benefit Claim Lawsuit
- From the March 11, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- The employee in this case sued her employer’s insured disability benefit plan and its disability insurance company to recover disability benefits. The insurance company asked the court to dismiss the employee’s claims against it because the ...
-
- TPA Was an ERISA Fiduciary Despite Contractual Disclaimer of Fiduciary Status
- From the February 25, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- The third-party administrator (TPA) in this case made payments on infertility and mental health claims in excess of the applicable caps and lifetime maximum limits imposed under the employer’s group health plan. The employer, as plan sponsor, ...
-
- Administrative Law Judge Upholds Assessment of $86,500 in Penalties for Plan's Failure to File Complete Form 5500
- From the January 28, 2010 EBIA Weekly
- This DOL administrative law judge decision involves a 401(k) plan that was assessed an $86,500 penalty after it failed to include an acceptable accountant’s report with its Form 5500 for the 2004 plan year. After repeatedly ...
-
- Benefit Claim Survives Claimant's Failure to Exhaust Administrative Remedies Due to Insurer's Failure to Provide Requested Documents
- From the December 10, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- The insurer for the ERISA long-term disability plan in this case terminated a plan participant’s benefits (for failure to satisfy the applicable disability definition), providing a denial notice that cited the findings of medical and vocational experts ...
-
- Employer's Hand-Delivery Process for Distributing SPDs Was Sufficient Under ERISA
- From the December 03, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- The trial court in this case found that an employer’s SPD hand-delivery process satisfied DOL regulations, which require that the process be reasonably calculated to ensure that recipients receive SPDs and likely to result in full distribution. ...
-
- Disability Plan's Interpretation of Earnings to Exclude Commissions Upheld as Reasonable
- From the December 03, 2009 EBIA Weekly
- This case involved a dispute about the amount of long-term disability benefits payable to a disabled employee who had transferred from a management to a nonmanagement sales position before her disability began. Under the plan, benefits for management salespeople ...
