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Stephens v. Retirement Income Plan for Pilots of U.S. Air, Inc.

Civil Procedure, Contracts, ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
Dismissal, for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, of pilots' causes of action against an airline and a retirement plan under provisions of ERISA is...

Bassiri v. Xerox Corp.

Contracts, ERISA, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
Dismissal of a former employee's claims alleging wrongful termination of employment and disability payments, pursuant to a finding of Employee...

Christensen v. Qwest Pension Plan

Civil Procedure, ERISA, Labor & Employment Law, Remedies
Summary judgment for a plan and its administrators in an action under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) is affirmed where the...

Zielinski v. Pabst Brewing Co., Inc.

Class Actions, Contracts, ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment for brewing company in a class action suit seeking injunctive relief and damages related to changes in a prescription drug plan for...

Feibusch v. Integrated Device Tech., Inc. Employee Benefit Plan

Contracts, ERISA, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an ERISA action, a decision that an insurer, as issuer and administrator, did not abuse its discretion in terminating plaintiff's disability...

Donovan v. Eaton Corp.

ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
Reversal of defendant's decision to deny plaintiff long term disability benefits under an ERISA plan is affirmed where defendant did not act...

Glenn v. MetLife

ERISA, Health Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an ERISA action against defendant-insurer, the plan administrator for Sears, summary judgment upholding its termination of long-term disability...

Moon v. Unum Provident Corp.

Attorney's Fees, ERISA
An order denying plaintiff's application for attorney's fees and costs in an ERISA case is reversed where the district court: 1) abused its discretion...

Halliburton Co. Benefits Comm. v. Graves

Contracts, Corporation & Enterprise Law, ERISA, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law, M&A
In a class action brought under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) involving the retiree program of a company that merged into a...

Trs. of the Constr. Indus. & Laborers Health & Welfare Trust v. Redland Ins. Co.

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, ERISA
In the context of ERISA actions, if fees for work performed by non-attorneys are customarily billed separately in the relevant market, those fees are...