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Peter S. Sessions is a partner at Kantor & Kantor who has been with the firm since 2004. Peter represents individual clients seeking health, life, and disability benefits, typically under employee health plans.

Kramer v. American Elec. Power Exec. Severance Plan, No. 24-3174, __ F.4th __, 2025 WL 444923 (6th Cir. Feb. 10, 2025) (Before Circuit Judges Cole, Mathis, and Bloomekatz)

Your ERISA Watch is short-staffed this week, so we won’t be providing our usual comprehensive coverage of all the week’s ERISA-related decisions. Instead, we are highlighting

There is something for everyone in this edition of Your ERISA Watch, as the federal courts touched on seemingly every facet of ERISA in the past week.

There are decisions on the merits in cases seeking medical benefits (K.A. v. United Healthcare Ins. Co. and K.K. v. Premera Blue Cross), disability benefits

Spence v. American Airlines, Inc., No. 4:23-CV-00552-O, 2025 WL 225127 (N.D. Tex. Jan. 10, 2025) (Judge Reed O’Connor)

In this much-anticipated ruling, Judge Reed O’Connor of the Northern District of Texas became the first judge to render a decision on the merits regarding the interaction between corporate environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) initiatives and