Zall v. Standard Ins. Co., No. 22-1096, __ F. 4th __, 2023 WL 312368 (7th Cir. Jan. 19, 2023) (Before Circuit Judges Hamilton, St. Eve, and Kirsch)
ERISA Section 503 requires that plan fiduciaries decide benefit claims under a “full and fair” claims review procedure. 29 U.S.C. § 1133. The Department of Labor has
It was a slow week in ERISA-land, as the courts presumably continue to recover from December and January vacations.
Read on for summaries of this week’s cases, which include a potential class action challenge to Hartford’s disability benefit claims handling (McQuillin v. Hartford), another skirmish in the battle between employees and employers over
Curtis v. Aetna Life Ins. Co., No. 3:19-cv-01579-MPS, 2023 WL 34662 (D. Conn. Jan. 4, 2023) (Judge Michael P. Shea)
In this week’s notable decision, Judge Michael P. Shea applied a “somewhat-novel doctrine of ‘class standing’” to significantly limit claims in an ERISA healthcare coverage class action against Aetna Life Insurance Company. This application