employee-retirement-income-security-act

8 cases — ← All topics

Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-1209 M & K Employee Solutions, LLC, et al. v. Trustees of the IAM National Pension Fund District of Columbia 2024-05-13 Granted CVSGAmici (12)Relisted (2) actuarial-assumptions circuit-split employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa multiemployer-pension multiemployer-pension-plan plan-year statutory-interpretation withdrawal-liability Whether 29 U.S.C. 1391's instruction to compute withdrawal liability 'as of the end of the plan year' requires the plan to base the computation on the…
22-1197 Jon Lawrence Frank v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-06-09 Denied Response Waived 401k-plan consumer-credit-protection-act employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa garnishment lump-sum-distribution mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution retirement-plan-benefits Whether ERISA precludes garnishment of 401(k) plan to satisfy restitution order
22-795 Jay C. Richmond v. Life Insurance Company of North America Eighth Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-discretion circuit-split contra-proferentem employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa erisa-benefits firestone-deference full-and-fair-review judicial-review plan-interpretation Whether the court of appeals applied the wrong standard of judicial review under Firestone-Tire-and-Rubber-Co-v-Bruch
22-417 Gary Metzgar, et al. v. U.A. Plumbers and Steamfitters Local No. 22 Pension Fund, et al. Second Circuit 2022-11-02 Denied Amici (1) accrued-benefits anti-cutback-rule early-retirement employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa pension-benefits pension-plan plan-interpretation postretirement-employment retirement-plan Whether ERISA's anti-cutback rule prohibits plan trustees from eliminating participants' early retirement benefits through a reinterpretation of the p…
21-1376 Mary Alexandre v. National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, PA First Circuit 2022-04-25 Denied accidental-death civil-procedure employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa insurance insurance-policy presumption state-of-mind suicide suicide-presumption trial-procedure Should the trial court apply presumptions against suicide and in favor of an accident when the insured's state of mind is contested in an ERISA-covere…
20-378 North Cypress Medical Center Operating Company, Ltd., et al. v. Cigna Healthcare, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied administrative-discretion benefits-denial circuit-split conflicts-of-interest employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa firestone-analysis judicial-review standard-of-review totality-of-factors Whether, in reviewing an ERISA administrator's benefits denial, it is automatically dispositive that 'two other courts' upheld the administrator's int…
18-1364 Jim Miller v. Eric Olsen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied Response Waived circuit-court district-court employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa erisa-plan jurisdiction ninth-circuit primary-purpose-test retirement-plan surrounding-circumstances-test Whether the Oregon District Court and Ninth Circuit erred in applying the 'primary purpose' test rather than the 'surrounding circumstances' test to d…
18-1116 Intel Corporation Investment Policy Committee, et al. v. Christopher M. Sulyma Ninth Circuit 2019-02-26 Judgment Issued Amici (5)Relisted (2) actual-knowledge breach breach-of-fiduciary-duty disclosure disclosure-requirements employee-retirement employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa erisa-statute-of-limitations fiduciary-duty limitations-period retirement-plans statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation Whether the three-year limitations period in Section 413(2) of ERISA bars suit where all relevant information was disclosed to the plaintiff more than…