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Golden Gate Rest. Ass'n v. City and County of San Francisco

Administrative Law, Commercial Law, ERISA, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a challenge to municipally mandated employer health care spending requirements, summary judgment for plaintiff is reversed and the case remanded...

Vaught v. Scottsdale Healthcare Corp. Health Plan

Civil Procedure, Contracts, ERISA, Insurance Law
In an ERISA challenge to denial of benefits, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed in part and reversed in part where: 1) issue preclusion does...

Poore v. Simpson Paper Co.

Civil Procedure, Commercial Law, Contracts, ERISA, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a dispute over retirement benefits, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed where: 1) plaintiffs interests had not vested, and the court lacked...

Burke v. Pitney Bowes, Inc.

ERISA, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an ERISA case, summary judgment for defendant is vacated and the case remanded where: 1) under the Supreme Court's recent Metropolitan Life Ins....

Vaughn v. Bay Env't Mgmt., Inc.

Civil Procedure, ERISA, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an ERISA case, dismissal for lack of jurisdiction is vacated and the case remanded, where: 1) plaintiffs who have already received payout from...

Tate v. Long Term Disability Plan for Salaried Employees of Champion Int'l Corp. #506

Attorney's Fees, ERISA
A district court judgment that an ERISA administrator had acted arbitrarily and capriciously in revoking plaintiff's long-term disability benefits,...

Doyle v. Liberty Life Assurance Co. of Boston

ERISA, Government Law, Health Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
Grant of summary judgment in favor of defendant-ERISA plan adminstrator is affirmed where: 1) defendant, as administrator of an ERISA-governed long...

Pannebecker v. Liberty Life Assurance Co.

Attorney's Fees, Contracts, ERISA, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an ERISA case challenging denial of disability benefits, a judgment upholding denial of benefits is affirmed in part and reversed and remanded in...

Carmona v. Carmona

Civil Procedure, ERISA, Family Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an ERISA battle between the eight and ninth wives of a deceased pension holder, judgment in favor of defendant is affirmed in part and reversed in...

Abena v. Metro. Life Ins. Co.

Contracts, ERISA, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law, Workers' Compensation
In an ERISA suit seeking continuation of long-term disability payments, summary judgment for defendants on the basis that plaintiff's claim was...