insurance-policy

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-741 Levi Goldfarb, et al. v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company Eleventh Circuit 2025-01-14 Denied Response Waived accidental-death circuit-split contract-interpretation erisa insurance-policy mountain-climbing Whether an accidental death insurance policy subject to ERISA should determine the existence of an 'accident' by common law presumption or a 'reasonab…
24-5724 Victor Guyton, II v. Golden Donuts, LLC Georgia 2024-10-08 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-law equal-protection insurance-policy sovereign-immunity state-rights Does a state have the right to waive sovereign immunity in violation of its own constitution and the U.S. Constitution?
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…
21-554 Amber Boyer v. Schneider Electric Holdings, Inc., et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-10-15 Denied Response Waived accidental-death benefits-due crime-exclusion erisa insurance-policy plan-administrator substantial-evidence Whether the ERISA Plan Administrator's interpretation of 'crime' to include speeding and improper passing was unreasonable when denying coverage under…
21-5208 Samuel W. Wani v. George Fox University, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion causation discovery discovery-violation expert-testimony fair-trial insurance-policy medical-malpractice medical-records standard-of-care Wani's failure to provide expert testimony regarding the standard of care and causation
20-379 Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s London v. Brighton Collectibles, LLC Ninth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied abstention civil-damages comity due-process federalism insurance-policy invasion-of-privacy ninth-circuit privacy-rights song-beverly-act song-beverly-credit-card-act Whether the Ninth Circuit violated federalism, abstention, and comity by creating new law when it refused to follow California's precedence establishi…
19-884 Rick V. Caldwell, et ux. v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America Tenth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied beneficiary-rights contra-proferentem discretionary-provision erisa fiduciary-duty insurance-policy judicial-deference trust-law Does construing ambiguous insurance policy terms against ERISA beneficiaries undermine the purpose of ERISA?
18-7709 John B. Laschkewitsch, as Administrator for the Estate of Ben Laschkewitsch v. Lincoln Life and Annuity Distributors, Inc., dba Lincoln Financial Group Fourth Circuit 2019-02-01 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law appeals attorneys-fees breach-of-contract civil-rights contract costs diagnostic-disclosure due-process equal-protection insurance insurance-policy policy-contestability producer-agreement standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant constitutional and statutory provisions governing the issues prese…
18-5335 Min Kwon v. Erie Insurance Virginia 2018-07-25 Denied IFP bona-fides caption civil-procedure contract-dispute contract-law contractual-terms coverage-dispute due-process erie-insurance exhibit insurance-policy parties policy-interpretation statutory-interpretation table-of-contents Which policy did Kwon contract original policy?