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LaRue decision
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Gearing Up For Another Significant ERISA Decision From The Fourth Circuit
By: Ian Morrison and Nadir Ahmed The Fourth Circuit’s LaRue decision went largely unnoticed until the Supreme Court decided to take the case, and the ensuing opinion has had a…
Boston ERISA & Insurance Litigation Blog
LaRue, The Postscript
Remember the grave concern in different quarters about whether the Supreme Court’s ruling in LaRue would lead to a flood of litigation? Turns out it didn’t even do so in…
Boston ERISA & Insurance Litigation Blog
LaRue, Auditing, and 401(k) Plans
On various occasions on this blog I have tried to turn away from its understandable focus on legal issues and onto the real world consequences of the legal rulings that…
The Retirement Plan Blog
“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.”
By Jerry Kalish
The phrase,"What we've got here is (a) failure to communicate" is, of course, the famous line from the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke starring Paul Newman. The quote is attributed…
Boston ERISA & Insurance Litigation Blog
The Meaning of Justice Roberts’ Concurrence in LaRue
There’s nothing really new in this piece for those who have already closely followed and studied the LaRue decision (how’s that for opening with a bang?), but this column on…
Boston ERISA & Insurance Litigation Blog
Want to Learn More About the Post-LaRue World?
I am trying to kick the LaRue habit, but couldn’t resist going back to the well one more time (how’s that for mixing my metaphors?). I know from readers of…
Boston ERISA & Insurance Litigation Blog
Passing Along an Interesting Blog: Number One
One interesting thing about the LaRue case is the amount of blog commentary it inspired. For me personally, the best aspect of that wasn’t so much what other bloggers had…
Boston ERISA & Insurance Litigation Blog
More on LaRue: Lawyers USA Weighs In
Thought I would pass this along right now, while the article is still available to non-subscribers - I suspect if you read this post tomorrow, you will have to subscribe…
Boston ERISA & Insurance Litigation Blog
Why ERISA?
You know, people often get bogged down when talking about ERISA with the limitations of the statute and the protections it provides on the individual level; that is, to an extent, what…
Boston ERISA & Insurance Litigation Blog
Is the Supreme Court Setting Out To Alter the Law of ERISA?
Conventional wisdom holds that the Supreme Court set out last term to change the direction of patent law, and did so. Are they out to do the same thing now…