Posts in 2021

Jul 28 Your ERISA Watch – Heads I Win, Tails You Lose

Your ERISA Watch – Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: Fifth Circuit Concludes That District Court Acted Properly in Determining that ...

Jul 21 Your ERISA Watch

Your ERISA Watch – Just a handful of decisions this week and no case of the week. Maybe the courts are on vacation like everyone ...

Jul 14 Your ERISA Watch – Court Slams Unum for Disability Denial for Double Amputee

Your ERISA Watch – Court Slams Unum for Disability Denial for Double Amputee Dwyer v. Unum Life Ins. Co. of Am. , No. 19-4751, ...

Jul 07 Your ERISA Watch

Your ERISA Watch – Despite the pyrotechnics on the Fourth, no fireworks from the courts this week and thus no notable decision. Oh ...

Jun 30 Your ERISA Watch – Fourth Circuit Largely Rules for Plaintiffs in Class Action Challenge to Aetna/Optum Billing Practices

Peters v. Aetna Inc. , No. 19-2085, __ F.3d __, 2021 WL 2546412 (4th Cir. June 22, 2021) (Before Circuit Judges Agee, Floyd, and ...

Jun 23 Your ERISA Watch – Court Certifies Class Action Challenging Aetna's Benefit Denials for Lumbar Artificial Disc Replacement

Hendricks v. Aetna Life Ins. Co. , No. CV 19-06840-CJC(MRWx), 2021 WL 2497950 (C.D. Cal. June 11, 2021) (Judge Cormac J. Carney). ...