U.S. Supreme Court,
Labor/Employment,
Civil Litigation
Mar. 6, 2020
Victory for plan beneficiaries in US Supreme Court ruling
The Supreme Court’s decision in a case last week will have wide-reaching implications. Now, plan administrators can no longer hide behind the volumes of unintelligible disclosures they make every year. Employers and plan fiduciaries may now be exposed to litigation challenging plan actions for a much longer time than they had anticipated.
Robert J. McKennon
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McKennon Law Group PC
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USC Law School
Robert specializes in representing policyholders in life, health and disability insurance, insurance bad faith, ERISA and unfair business practices litigation. His firm's California Insurance Litigation Blog can be found at www.californiainsurancelitigation.com.
Just a decade ago, breach-of-fiduciary-duty claims under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act were not common. That changed in 2011 when the U.S. Supreme Court broadened the scope of equitable relief available under ERISA utilizing breach of fiduciary claims in its landmark decision in Cigna Corp. v. Amara, 563 U.S. 421, 441 (2011). The Supreme Court recognized ...
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