Hartford Life & Accident Ins. Co. v. Valois, No. 23-3286, __ F. App’x __, 2024 WL 4678055 (9th Cir. Nov. 5, 2024) (Before Circuit Judges Owens, Sung, and Sanchez)
One of ERISA’s goals is to simplify benefit plan administration and ensure that administrators are not subject to multiple conflicting claims or instructions. ERISA endeavors
This was one of the lightest weeks in recent memory for ERISA decisions in the federal courts, with only a handful of cases reported. Have the courts finally figured out all of ERISA’s issues? Have benefit plans simply decided to approve every claim? Or is this merely a respite before the deluge? Stay tuned to
The federal courts took a breather this week after the Civil Justice Reform Act reporting period expired on September 30, with a sharp drop in the number of ERISA-related cases reported. None of the decisions that were reported were particularly striking, so we at Your ERISA Watch will take a breather as well and forgo