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Cent. States Health & Welfare Fund v. Merck-Medco Managed Care

Attorney's Fees, Civil Procedure, Class Actions, Corp. Governance, Drugs & Biotech, ERISA, Health Law, Labor & Employment Law
District court judgment: 1) denying a motion to intervene pursuant to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA); 2) certifying the class...

Wise v. Kind & Knox Gelatin, Inc.

Administrative Law, ERISA, Government Benefits, Health Law, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
Ruling that defendants, plan administrators, abused their discretion in denying plaintiff's long term disability benefits claim is reversed where...

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

Civil Procedure, ERISA, Government Benefits, Health Law, Insurance Law
Denial of plaintiff's motion for reconsideration of the denial of her claim for benefits for physical disability under the Employee Retirement and...

Mello v. Sara Lee Corp.

ERISA
Summary judgment for plaintiff, estopping defendant under ERISA from correcting a clerical error that reduced the amount of plaintiff's pension...

Colucci v. Agfa Corp. Severance Pay Plan

Contracts, ERISA, Labor & Employment Law, M&A
In an ERISA dispute over the calculation of plaintiff's severance benefits, the district court's determination that defendant abused its discretion in...

Moriarty v. Svec

Attorney's Fees, ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
Award of attorneys' fees in a dispute over contributions to a pension fund is vacated where the district court did not properly consider the...

Feder v. Elec. Data Sys. Corp.

Class Actions, Communications Law, Contracts, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, ERISA, Government Contracts, Securities Law
Class certification in a securities class action is affirmed where there was no abuse of discretion in finding the state of New Jersey to be an...

Rains v. Flinn

Bankruptcy Law, Constitutional Law, Contracts, ERISA, Evidence
District court in a bankruptcy case erred in ruling that an appeal of the judgment enforcing a settlement agreement was untimely; however, entry of...

Files v. ExxonMobile Pension Plan

ERISA, Family Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action for pension plan benefits by the ex-wife of a now-deceased participant, a property settlement agreement constitutes a Qualified Domestic...

Caley v. Gulfstream Aerospace Corp.

Civil Rights, Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, ERISA, Injury & Tort Law, Labor & Employment Law
Plaintiff-employees' challenge to their employer's adoption of a dispute resolution policy is dismissed where their continued employment after receipt...