×
Menu
Search
Home > Blog > Blog > Accidental Death Benefits

District Court Holds ERISA Plan Participant Adequately Pleaded “Futility” In Pursuing Administrative Remedies and Denies Insurer’s Motion to Dismiss

District Court Holds ERISA Plan Participant Adequately Pleaded “Futility” In Pursuing Administrative Remedies and Denies Insurer’s Motion to Dismiss

In Taylor v. Principal Life Insurance Company, No. 3:24CV603 DRL-SJF, 2024 WL 4381223 (N.D. Ind. Oct. 2, 2024), Indiana Northern District Judge Damon R. Leichty denied Principal Life Insurance Company’s Rule…

Read More

District Court Finds Insurer Properly Denied Claim for AD&D Benefits Due To Decedent’s Intoxication Which Contributed To The Vehicle Accident

In Sherman v. Medmutual Life Ins. Co., No. 5:23CV2313, 2024 WL 4240137 (N.D. Ohio Sept. 19, 2024), Ohio Northern District Judge Christopher A. Boyko granted judgment in favor of Defendant…

Read More

Eleventh Circuit Hands Win to Reliance Standard in Dispute over Accidental Death Insurance Benefits Where Body Was Never Found

In Goldfarb v. Reliance Standard Life Ins. Co., No. 23-10309, 2024 WL 3271012 (11th Cir. July 2, 2024), the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a district court’s decision ordering…

Read More

District Court Affirms Denial of ERISA AD&D Claim Finding Death Due to Toxic Ingestion of Prescribed Medication Was Subject to Policy’s Sickness Exclusion

In Jensen v. Life Insurance Company of North America, et al., No. 2:22-CV-293-DAK-DAO, 2024 WL 54433 (D. Utah Jan. 4, 2024), Utah District Judge Dale A. Kimball denied Plaintiff’s motion…

Read More

District Court Finds Choice of Law Provision in AD&D Policy Trumps California Law Banning Discretionary Authority in Life Insurance Policies

In White v. Guardian Life Insurance Company, et al., No. 22-CV-1788-L-KSC, 2023 WL 5519315 (S.D. Cal. Aug. 25, 2023), California Southern District Judge M. James Lorenz denied Plaintiff’s motion to…

Read More

District Court Affirms MetLife’s Denial of AD&D Benefits Finding Insured’s Post-Surgical Death From Unintentional Narcotic Overdose Was Not Covered Under The Policy

In Wicks v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, No. 4:21-CV-1275-O, 2023 WL 5216493 (N.D. Tex. Aug. 14, 2023), under a de novo standard of review, Texas Northern District Judge Reed O’Connor…

Read More

Get The Help You Need Today

Inner form image

LEAVE YOUR MESSAGE

Contact Us

We know how to get your insurance claim paid. Call today at:
(510) 230-2090

Close Popup