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Cunningham v. Cornell Univ., No. 23-1007, __ S. Ct. __, 2025 WL 1128943 (U.S. Apr. 17, 2025)
As Your ERISA Watch readers probably know, ERISA litigation often entails a surprising number pf peculiar, court-created rules not applied in any other context. But not for the first time, the Supreme Court this week rejected the…
After the flood of end-of-reporting-period decisions issued over the past several weeks, the tide has turned. This week we report on only eight cases. So relax and enjoy reading this week’s short but interesting selection of ERISA decisions, including one holding that 401(k) plan participants have adequately stated excessive fee claims, another reluctantly holding that…
Waldron v. Unum Life Ins. Co. of Am., No. 3:24-CV-05193-TMC, 2025 WL 949028 (W.D. Wash. Mar. 28, 2025) (Judge Tiffany M. Cartwright)
This week Your ERISA Watch is engaging in a bit of shameless self-promotion as we highlight this Kantor & Kantor long-term disability benefit win. The case is worth emphasizing regardless of our…
Navarro v. Wells Fargo & Co., No. 24-cv-3043 (LMP/DTS), 2025 WL 897717 (D. Minn. Mar. 24, 2025) (Judge Laura M. Provinzino)
We have been watching cases alleging that fiduciaries are mismanaging prescription drug benefit programs at Your ERISA Watch for several years now. These lawsuits contend that plan sponsors and fiduciaries of ERISA-governed healthcare…
Cannon v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mass., No. 24-1862, __ F. 4th __, 2025 WL 855194 (1st Cir. Mar. 19, 2025) (Before Circuit Judges Aframe, Lynch, and Howard)
As our readers undoubtedly know, ERISA contains a notably broad preemption provision designed to ensure that, for the most part, employee benefits are governed…
Although we celebrated St. Patrick’s Day this week, no one case had the luck of the Irish to be crowned our Notable Decision. Nevertheless, we should all raise a pint to the federal courts, who were busy this week issuing plenty of interesting decisions, all of which you can read about below.
They include a…
McManus v. The Clorox Co., No. 4:23-CV-05325-YGR, 2025 WL 732087 (N.D. Cal. Mar. 3, 2025) (Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers)
Our case of the week is one in a series of recently filed cases presenting novel challenges to “a practice by which retirement plan administrators use forfeited plan funds to reduce their own administrative expenses instead…
Doe v. Deloitte LLP Grp. Ins. Plan, No. 23 CIV. 4743 (JPC), __ F. Supp. 3d __, 2025 WL 586670 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 24, 2025) (Judge John P. Cronan)
Our case of the week is a published district court decision that tackles two important issues in ERISA benefits litigation. The first is a classic procedural…
Utah v. Micone, No. 2:23-CV-016-Z, __ F. Supp. 3d __, 2025 WL 510331 (N.D. Tex. Feb. 14, 2025) (Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk)
On Valentine’s Day, Judge Kacsmaryk issued what to many was a surprising decision affirming the validity of the most recent regulation on a fiduciary’s consideration of non-pecuniary factors in making investment option…
Kramer v. American Elec. Power Exec. Severance Plan, No. 24-3174, __ F.4th __, 2025 WL 444923 (6th Cir. Feb. 10, 2025) (Before Circuit Judges Cole, Mathis, and Bloomekatz)
Your ERISA Watch is short-staffed this week, so we won’t be providing our usual comprehensive coverage of all the week’s ERISA-related decisions. Instead, we are highlighting…
