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The Friday Five: Five ERISA Litigation Highlights - August 2024

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This month’s Friday Five explores decisions from around the country discussing differences between the scope of discovery and ability to add documents to the record on a claim for review challenging the denial of LTD...more

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Insurance-Based Paid Family Medical Leave Options for Employers in the “SEC”

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In 2023, legislatures in five “Southeastern Conference” states passed statutes creating options for employers to voluntarily provide paid family and medical leave (PFML) through insurance benefits purchased from the private...more

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The Friday Five: Five ERISA Litigation Highlights - April 2024

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This month’s Friday Five covers the treatment of job-related stress in assessing an attorney’s disability, the requirements surrounding the qualifications of a medical professional to review a claimant’s medical records in...more

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The Friday Five: Five ERISA Litigation Highlights - March 2024

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This month’s Friday Five covers cases relating to an alleged conflict of interest leading to discovery, two courts’ opposite treatments of subjective pain complaints, a decision that claims of fraud and misrepresentation were...more

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The Friday Five: Five ERISA Litigation Highlights - February 2024

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This month’s Friday Five explores decisions regarding the transfer of an ERISA action that was filed in a state where an insurer did not maintain sufficient minimum contacts, an award of attorneys’ fees, costs, and...more

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The Friday Five: Five ERISA Litigation Highlights - October 2023

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This month’s Friday Five explores recent decisions that range from the effect on disability benefits when medical records are not provided after two appeals, to a case that examines how an award of death benefits is...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Highlights from the LTCi EX Task Force Meeting at NAIC

We want to bring you some highlights from the in-person LTCi EX Task Force meeting we attended August 12 during NAIC’s Summer National Meeting in Portland. The Commissioners principally discussed the next steps in the...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Senate Finance Committee Advances EARN Act in Effort to Expand Retirement

On Wednesday, June 22, the Senate Finance Committee advanced the Enhancing American Retirement Now (EARN) Act, including an amendment containing retiring Sen. Pat Toomey’s Long-Term Care Affordability Act. The Amendment would...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Timing is Everything: Tenth Circuit Overturns Insurer’s Disability Decision as Arbitrary and Capricious

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Even when a claims administrator approves a claim for disability benefits, its job is not done. That principle was again demonstrated in the recent case Owings v. United of Omaha Life Insurance Co., No. 16-3128 (10th Cir....more

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One Judge Finds Alabama’s Workers’ Compensation Act Unconstitutional—Now What?

Workers’ compensation laws are supposed to take the guess work out of employee injuries. If an employee is hurt at work, the statute governs, you pay the benefits and move on—right? Well, if you have employees in Alabama,...more

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Does the Fiduciary Exception Apply to Legal Advice Received By Insurers During the Claims Process

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Seyfarth Synopsis: Adding to the body of conflicting authority on the scope of the attorney-client privilege in ERISA lawsuits, a district court has found that the fiduciary exception to attorney-client privilege applies to...more

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