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Sloan v. Astrue

Administrative Law, Evidence, Government Benefits, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
A decision denying claimant's application for disability insurance benefits under the Social Security Act is reversed and remanded for reassessment...

TMJ Implants, Inc. v. Aetna, Inc.

Drugs & Biotech, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law
In a suit brought against insurers by a manufacturer of certain prosthetic implants for defamation and related torts, dismissal of the complaint for...

Pylant v. Hartford Life & Accident Ins. Co.

ERISA, Health Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a case arising from the termination of long-term disability benefits for an employee by the administrator of an employee welfare benefit plan...

United Seniors Assoc., Inc. v. Phillip Morris USA

Civil Procedure, Government Benefits, Health Law, Tax-exempt Organizations
In a suit by a nonprofit taxpayer advocacy group to force five tobacco companies to reimburse the federal Medicare program for the monies it has...

Hjortness v. Neenah Joint Sch. Dist.

Administrative Law, Education Law, Health Law
In a due process claim by a student and his parents against a school district alleging the denial of a free appropriate public education in violation...

Shubargo v. Astrue

Administrative Law, Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Government Benefits, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a social security case, denial of claimant's application for an award of attorney's fees under the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) as untimely...

Korangy v. FDA

Administrative Law, Drugs & Biotech, Health Law
Petition for review challenging respondent's order imposing monetary sanctions on petitioners for allowing a statutorily-required certification to...

Hulteen v. AT&T Corp.

Civil Rights, Communications Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action challenging AT&T's use of a facially discriminatory service credit policy to calculate employee pension and retirement benefits,...

Washington v. Murphy Oil USA, Inc.

ERISA, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
When the terms of a Summary Plan Description (SPD) and an ERISA plan conflict and the terms of the conflicting SPD unequivocally grant the employee...

LaSalle v. Mercantile Bancorporation, Inc.

Civil Procedure, ERISA, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, M&A
In plaintiff's action arising from the termination of his disability benefits under ERISA, summary judgment for defendant-plan administrator and a...