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Winnett v. Caterpillar, Inc.

Class Actions, Contracts, ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit alleging that defendant-employer breached its promise to provide lifetime retiree medical benefits to plaintiffs at no cost, a district...

Kennedy v. Plan Admin. for DuPont Savings & Inv. Plan

ERISA, Family Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an ERISA case involving the Act's limitation on assignment or alienation of benefits, and a divorced spouse's purported waiver of her entitlement...

Slupinski v. First Unum Life Ins. Co.

Attorney's Fees, ERISA, Insurance Law
Denial of plaintiff's requests for attorney's fees and prejudgment interest in connection with plaintiff's successful claim under the Employment...

Advantedge Bus. v. Thomas E. Mestmaker & Assocs., Inc.

Civil Procedure, ERISA, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
In litigation concerned a health-insurance plan plaintiff, a professional employer organization providing payroll and health insurance services,...

Armstrong v. LaSalle Bank Nat'l Ass'n

Civil Procedure, Contracts, ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
In a consolidated multidistrict suit alleging violations of ERISA, breaches of fiduciary duty, breach of contract and conversion, grant of plaintiffs'...

Nolan v. Heald College

Civil Procedure, ERISA, Insurance Law
In an ERISA case involving the cancellation of long-term disability benefits, summary judgment for the plan administrator is reversed where a district...

Willcox v. Liberty Life Assurance Co. of Boston

ERISA, Evidence
In an ERISA suit alleging that defendant wrongfully denied plaintiff's claim for long term partial disability benefits, summary judgment for plaintiff...

Owens v. Auto. Machinists Pension Trust

ERISA, Family Law
In a suit regarding the denial of distribution of pension benefits to a quasi-marital spouse, denial of the defendant's motion for reconsideration is...

McCauley v. First Unum Life Ins. Co.

ERISA, Health Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a challenge to defendent-insurer's denial of plaintiff's claim for long-term disability benefits, dismissal of plaintiff's complaint is reversed...

Cole v. ArvinMeritor, Inc.

Contracts, ERISA, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action under section 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act (LMRA) and ERISA brought by retired employees and their union against Rockwell...