This week, no single case jumped out at us as an obvious candidate for case of the week. But keep reading for many interesting decisions, including one awarding costs to Hartford Life Insurance Company in a disability benefit case, Davis v. Hartford Life & Accident Ins. Co., and a fascinating family drama just in
Your ERISA Watch – Week of November 9, 2022
This week, we just have a handful of ERISA decisions to report on, and no case of the week. It seems all the excitement is at the polls.
Below is a summary of this past week’s notable ERISA decisions by subject matter and jurisdiction.
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ERISA Fee Suit Against Yale University Will Proceed to Trial
Vellali v. Yale Univ., No. 3:16-cv-1345 (AWT), 2022 WL 13684612 (D. Conn. Oct. 21, 2022) (Judge Alvin W. Thompson)
A district court in Hartford, Connecticut has held that a longstanding suit by participants in the Yale University 403(b) Retirement Account Plan can proceed to trial on their imprudence claims against Yale and related plan