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Hamilton v. Standard Ins. Co.

Contracts, ERISA, Insurance Law
In an action brought against an insurer arising from its reduction of the amount of death benefits paid to plaintiff under a policy covering her...

Kannapien v. Quaker Oats Co.

ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
In an ERISA suit brought by plaintiffs-former employees who accepted a severance package from defendant-Quaker Oats Company and retired, summary...

Bender v. Xcel Energy, Inc.

Bankruptcy Law, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, ERISA, Labor & Employment Law, M&A
In an action brought by former executives who filed an ERISA action against the successor to their company's parent corporation claiming that it...

Amschwand v. Spherion Corp.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, ERISA, Insurance Law, Remedies
Under ERISA section 502(a)(3), 29 U.S.C. section 1132(a)(3), "other appropriate equitable relief" does not permit recovery of extracontractual, or...

United Mine Workers v. Brushy Creek Coal Co.

Contracts, ERISA, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit by mine workers and their union under the Taft-Hartley Act and ERISA alleging that a health plan negotiated by the parties guaranteed the...

Garner v. US West Disability Plan

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, ERISA, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Appeal and cross-appeal of an order remanding to defendant-plan for reconsideration of a claim made by plaintiff under ERISA are dismissed for lack of...

Shane v. Albertson's Inc.

ERISA, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
An order reversing Albertson's decision to terminate plaintiff's Long Term Disability (LTD) benefits received under Albertson's Employees' Disability...

Miller v. Rite Aid Corp.

ERISA, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
The estate and alleged beneficiaries of an employee who was neither enrolled in, nor eligible for, a life insurance plan regulated by the Employee...

Lennon v. Metro. Life Ins. Co.

Contracts, ERISA, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an ERISA action arising from a denial of Personal Accident Insurance benefits to the beneficiary of an insured who died as result of his own drunk...

Custer v. Murphy Oil USA Inc.

ERISA, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an ERISA action brought against defendant-employer after plaintiff was injured and totally disabled at home, then was terminated and told he would...