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A Guide to Disability Benefits

A Guide to Disability Benefits

You’ve recently been diagnosed with a severe illness, or perhaps a condition you have managed for a long time is now interfering with your ability to work.   What do you…

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ERISA Watch – Supreme Court Holds that Defined Benefit Plan of Church-Affiliated Organization Is an ERISA-Exempt Church Plan

This week’s notable decision is fresh out of the U.S. Supreme Court in Advocate Health Care Network, et al. v. Stapleton, et al., No. 16-74, 581 U.S. __, (June 5,…

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ERISA Watch – Parent Has Standing under the Affordable Care Act to Challenge Denial of Son’s Gender Reassignment Surgery

This week’s notable decision is Tovar v. Essentia Health, No. 16-3186, __F.3d__, 2017 WL 2259632 (8th Cir. May 24, 2017).  In Tovar, Plaintiff is an employee who filed suit against…

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ERISA Watch – California Ban on Discretion Is Not Preempted by ERISA

We are pleased to report this week’s notable decision, Orzechowski v. The Boeing Company Non-Union Long Term Disability Plan, No. 14-55919, __F.3d__, 2017 WL 1947883 (9th Cir. May 11, 2017),…

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Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Expands Rights for Long Term Disability Claimants

The past six years have witnessed significant developments in the remedies available under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), a law once reputed to offer limited relief…

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ERISA Watch – California Insurance Code Defeats Disability Policy’s Limitations Provision

This week’s notable decision is an awesome post-Heimeshoff contractual limitations case out of the great state of California:  Gray v. United of Omaha Life Ins. Co., No. CV 16-7383 MWF…

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