all - Opinion Summaries

Louisiana Health Serv. & Indem. Co. v. Rapides Healthcare Sys.

ERISA, Government Law, Health Law, Insurance Law
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) does not preempt section 40:2010 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes, which requires insurance...

Abatie v. Alta Health & Life Ins. Co.

Evidence, Health Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law, ERISA
In ERISA cases in which a conflict of interest exists for the plan administrator, abuse of discretion review, tempered by skepticism commensurate with...

Craig v. Pillsbury Non-qualified Pension Plan

Administrative Law, ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
De novo review applies to top hat plans under ERISA because a top hat administrator has no fiduciary duties under ERISA. A district court's...

Abdel v. US Bancorp

Banking Law, Civil Procedure, Contracts, ERISA, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment dismissing an action to recover long-term disability (LTD) benefits under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) is...

Riddell v. Unum Life Ins. Co. of Am.

ERISA, Health Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
Judgment on the administrative record to defendants, claimant's employer and the administrator of his long-term disability plan, on an ERISA claim is...

Billings v. UNUM Life Ins. Co. of Am.

ERISA, Health Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
Summary judgment in favor of plaintiff as to his ERISA claim for wrongful denial of disability benefits due to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is...

Cooper v. IBM Personal Pension Plan

Class Actions, ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
Judgment for plaintiffs in a class-action suit alleging age discrimination under ERISA in the structure of a pension plan is reversed where the plan...

Bank of Louisiana v. Aetna US Healthcare Inc.

Attorney's Fees, Banking Law, Contracts, ERISA, Insurance Law
Summary judgment for defendant-insurer in a dispute with a bank involving stop-loss coverage is reversed in part where the district court erred in...

Silver v. Executive Car Leasing Long-Term Disability Plan

ERISA, Health Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
A decision upholding the denial of plaintiff's claim for disability benefits under an ERISA-governed policy is reversed where a finding that plaintiff...

Moore v. Lafayette Life Ins. Co.

Attorney's Fees, Contracts, ERISA, Health Law, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law, Sanctions
Judgment for defendants, an insurer and employer, on plaintiff-s ERISA claims, an award of partial attorney's fees and costs, and the imposition of...