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Shearer v. S.W. Serv. Life Ins. Co.

Civil Procedure, ERISA, Health Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a dispute involving payment of a claim under a health insurance policy, summary judgment for defendant finding that plaintiff's claims failed to...

Eckert v. Titan Tire Corp.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
In an action claiming that defendant miscalculated the amount of pension benefits plaintiff was entitled to receive, wherein defendant raised a...

Tullis v. UMB Bank, N.A.

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
The plain language and intent of ERISA permits an individual plan participant to seek recovery of losses due to a fiduciary breach. Consequently, two...

Stanford v. Continental Cas. Co.

ERISA, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an ERISA case challenging defendant's denial of long term disability benefits, judgment for defendant is affirmed over claim that defendant's...

Alexander v. Brigham & Women's Physicians Org., Inc.

ERISA, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit alleging that the benefit plans for a physicians' organization violated ERISA's vesting and fiduciary duty requirements, judgment for...

Bennett v. Kemper Nat'l Servs., Inc.

ERISA, Government Benefits, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an ERISA action arguing that a decision to deny plaintiff long-term disability benefits was arbitrary or capricious, a judgment for defendants is...

McAteer v. Silverleaf Resorts Inc.

ERISA, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. sections 1001-1461, does not preempt state law claims of negligence for failing...

Admin. Comm. for the Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Assocs' Health & Welfare Plan v. Horton

Civil Procedure, ERISA, Remedies
In ERISA case where plaintiff sought to enforce the reimbursement provisions of an employee health and welfare plan, summary judgment for defendants...

Golden Gate Restaurant Ass'n v. City & County of San Francisco

Civil Procedure, ERISA, Government Law, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
In an action challenging certain provisions of the newly enacted San Francisco Health Care Security Ordinance, arguing that they are preempted by...

Saffon v. Wells Fargo & Co. Long Term Disability Plan

ERISA, Evidence, Health Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an ERISA action arising from defendant-plan administrator's termination of her long-term disability benefits, denial of relief for plaintiff is...