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The Friday Five: Five ERISA Litigation Highlights - July 2025

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This month’s Friday Five explores recent ERISA disability benefit decisions involving key issues such as when attorney’s fees should be decided and factors used in determining venue transfer. It also explores retroactive...more

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The Friday Five: Five ERISA Litigation Highlights - April 2025

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The April Friday Five covers cases determining futility of exhausting administrative remedies, the nuances of the pre-existing condition exclusion, ERISA preemption, and genuine issue of material fact over an employee’s...more

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The Friday Five: Five ERISA Litigation Highlights - March 2025

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This month’s Friday Five addresses cases covering ERISA preemption, the viability of a claim for benefits where the claimant alleges to have not received notice of a prior claim denial, an affirmance by the Circuit Court of a...more

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The Friday Five: Five ERISA Litigation Highlights - February 2025

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This month’s Friday Five covers an appellate ruling on a complicated case raising both state and federal claims, an instance of procedural improprieties in the administrative review process informing the court’s substantive...more

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Litigation Lineup: Recent Decisions in Life and Disability Insurance Run into Policy Lapse, COVID-19, and Conflict of Interest...

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Life Policy Lapse Shortly Before Insured’s Death - In Simon v. USAA Life Insurance Co. (Mar. 29, 2024), the insurer denied death benefits under a term life insurance policy, which had lapsed for nonpayment of premium two...more

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Federal Cooperative Disability Investigations Program Establishes New Unit in North Carolina

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The North Carolina Department of Insurance recently announced that a new investigative unit formed as part of the Cooperative Disability Investigations (CDI) Program will be located in Raleigh, North Carolina, with the goal...more

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A Primer on When a Cause of Action Accrues for Statute of Limitations Purposes

In Bennett v. Ohio Nat’l Life Assur. Corp., 92 Cal. App. 5th 723, the California Court of Appeal addressed when the statute of limitations runs for a disability insurance claim. The Court held that the statute of limitations...more

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Class Action & MDL Roundup – Spring 2021

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Welcome back to the Class Action & MDL Roundup! Our spring edition covers notable class actions from the first quarter of 2021. In this edition, the courts are beginning to split on COVID-19 cases, privacy litigants can’t...more

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The Friday Five: Five Current ERISA Litigation Highlights – December 2020

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This month’s Friday Five covers recent cases addressing: (1) the validity of a judgment that includes retroactive “any occupation” benefits where no administrative determination on those benefits has been made; (2) the...more

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