Bryant Legal Group PC | USA | 12 May 2016
In the long anticipated ruling in Fontaine v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co., No. 14-1984, 2015 U.S. App. (7th Cir. Sept. 4, 2015), the Seventh Circuit…
Wilson Elser | USA | 12 Oct 2015
In Fontaine v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co., No. 14-1984, 2015 U.S. App. (7th Cir. Sept. 4, 2015), the Seventh Circuit affirmed a U.S. District Court…
Lane Powell PC | USA | 17 Sep 2015
You already know about the big trend in states to ban discretionary clauses in insurance policies that fund ERISA benefits. Chalk up another circuit…
McDermott Will & Emery | USA | 15 Sep 2015
On September 4, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit ruled in Fontaine v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company that the Employee…
Haynes and Boone LLP | USA | 19 Sep 2014
In the case of Moyer v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that a notice of benefit denial under ERISA…
Haynes and Boone LLP | USA | 22 May 2014
In the case of Hall v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled that MetLife had not abused its…
Proskauer Rose LLP | USA | 14 May 2014
The Eighth Circuit held that the named beneficiary of an ERISA governed life insurance policy was entitled to the proceeds even though the decedent's…
Proskauer Rose LLP | USA | 10 Sep 2013
Applying the common law "slayer rule," a federal district court in New York held that a beneficiary of an ERISA-governed life insurance plan forfeit…
Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP | USA | 8 Mar 2013
The very first principle applied in a lawsuit for benefits from an ERISA-governed employee benefit plan is as follows: When the plan bestows the…
Fox Rothschild LLP | USA | 28 Sep 2012
Last year, in CIGNA Corp. v. Amara, the Supreme Court signaled a willingness to broaden the scope of equitable remedies available to successful ERISA plaintiffs.