In Seneca v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, No. CV 23-00109-BAJ-SDJ, 2024 WL 4335925 (M.D. La. Sept. 27, 2024), Louisiana Middle District Judge Brian A. Jackson granted judgment in favor of MetLife and against Plaintiff, finding that MetLife had not
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Second Circuit Holds Pension Plan Participant Is Not Entitled to Actuarial Increase in Benefits Due to Working Beyond Normal Retirement Age
In Guzman v. Bldg. Serv. 32BJ Pension Fund, et al., No. 23-8032, 2024 WL 4431100 (2d Cir. Oct. 7, 2024), Plaintiff-Appellant Carlos Guzman, proceeding pro se, appealed the district court’s judgment dismissing his ERISA claims against the Building Service…
District Court Holds ERISA Plan Participant Adequately Pleaded “Futility” In Pursuing Administrative Remedies and Denies Insurer’s Motion to Dismiss
By Kristin Kyle
In Taylor v. Principal Life Insurance Company, No. 3:24CV603 DRL-SJF, 2024 WL 4381223 (N.D. Ind. Oct. 2, 2024), Indiana Northern District Judge Damon R. Leichty denied Principal Life Insurance Company’s Rule 12(b)(6) Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff’s ERISA claim for accidental death…
Third Circuit Affirms Judgment Awarding Top Hat Plan Participant Additional Benefits, Interest, Attorneys’ Fees, and Costs
In Campbell v. Board of Directors of Bryn Mawr Trust Company, No. 22-2723, 2024 WL 4380142 (3d Cir. Oct. 3, 2024), the Third Circuit Court of Appeals decided a dispute involving a contested lump sum distribution amount paid by…
Tenth Circuit Finds Plaintiffs Lack Standing to Bring Parity Act Claim and Affirms Award of ERISA Statutory Penalties Against Health Insurance Company
The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals recently decided S. v. Premera Blue Cross, No. 22-4056, __F.4th__, 2024 WL 4356319 (10th Cir. Oct. 1, 2024), a case involving claims for mental health treatment benefits under ERISA, alleged violations of the…
Third Circuit Upholds Dismissal of Putative ERISA Class Action Alleging MetLife Unlawfully Kept $65 Million in Drug Rebates for Its Own Benefit
In Knudsen v. MetLife Grp., Inc., No. 23-2420, __F.4th__, 2024 WL 4282967 (3d Cir. Sept. 25, 2024), Plaintiffs are former employees of MetLife Group, Inc. and participants in the MetLife Options & Choices Plan (the “Plan”). In a putative…
Sixth Circuit Reverses Withdrawal Liability Judgment Against Spouse of Sole Shareholder Who Ran Jewelry Business
In Loc. No. 499, Bd. of Trustees of Shopmen’s Pension Plan v. Art Iron, Inc., No. 22-3925, __F.4th__, 2024 WL 4297674 (6th Cir. Sept. 26, 2024), Defendants Robert and Mary Schlatter appeal from the district court’s grant of summary…
District Court Finds Insurer Properly Denied Claim for AD&D Benefits Due To Decedent’s Intoxication Which Contributed To The Vehicle Accident
By Kristin Kyle
In Sherman v. Medmutual Life Ins. Co., No. 5:23CV2313, 2024 WL 4240137 (N.D. Ohio Sept. 19, 2024), Ohio Northern District Judge Christopher A. Boyko granted judgment in favor of Defendant MedMutual under an abuse of discretion standard, finding that…
District Court Finds ERISA Plaintiff Did Not Satisfy Burden of Demonstrating Total Disability from Sedentary Occupation
By Kristin Kyle
In Kris B. v. Life Insurance Company of North America, No. 3:22-cv-03717-RFL (N.D. Cal. Sept. 12, 2024), on cross-motions for judgment pursuant to FRCP Rule 52, California Northern District Rita F. Lin entered judgment in favor of LINA finding…
Fifth Circuit Orders United Healthcare to Pay for Minor’s Partial-Hospitalization Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa
In Dwyer v. United Healthcare Ins. Co., No. 23-50439, __F.4th__, 2024 WL 4230125 (5th Cir. Sept. 19, 2024), the Fifth Circuit reversed the district court’s judgment in favor of United Healthcare in this nine-year dispute over the payment of…