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Caremark, Inc. v. Goetz

Drugs & Biotech, ERISA, Government Benefits, Government Law, Health Law, Insurance Law
In a declaratory action brought by a pharmaceutical-services company seeking declaration that certain pharmacy-benefit plan restrictions apply to a...

Patton v. MFS/Sun Life Fin. Distribs., Inc.

ERISA, Evidence, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an ERISA suit involving the termination of long-term disability benefits, summary judgment for defendant-insurer and denial of plaintiff's motion...

Green v. Holland

ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
In ERISA action seeking to recover accrued interest on disability benefits, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed where: 1) plaintiff's attempt...

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

Contracts, ERISA, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an ERISA action brought by a family injured in a drunk driving accident, summary judgment for defendants, refusing to enforce a reimbursement...

Guilbert v. Gardner

Civil Procedure, Contracts, ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
Principal holding of summary judgment for defendants is vacated in part as to plaintiff's breach of contract claim to the extent that claim...

Welch v. Metro. Life Ins. Co.

Attorney's Fees, ERISA, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
An order awarding plaintiff attorney's fees in an ERISA matter is affirmed in part, but vacated in part pursuant to plaintiff's challenge where the...

La Scala v. Scrufari

ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
Findings that defendant is not liable for certain breaches of fiduciary duties imposed by ERISA, and that damages based on certain other fiduciary...

Gore v. El Paso Energy Corp. Long Term Disability Plan

Administrative Law, ERISA, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Dismissal of ERISA claims brought against an employer/plan administrator and the plan manager/adjudicator is reversed in part as to a claim of breach...

Greeley v. Fairview Health Servs.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, ERISA, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a case brought against a former employer raising claims under ERISA for a faulty summary plan description (SPD), summary judgment for former...

US v. Novak

Criminal Law & Procedure, ERISA, Labor & Employment Law, Sentencing, White Collar Crime
Reconciling the Mandatory Victims Restitution Act (MVRA) and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), criminal restitution orders can be...