The Oyez Project: Economic Activity Issues - Employee Retirement Income Security Act Decisions

Black & Decker Disability Plan v. Nord - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 27 May 2003 12:00:00 -0500

Under ERISA, are companies required to defer to the decision of a disability claimant's personal physician?

Central Laborers' Pension Fund v. Heinz - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 07 Jun 2004 12:00:00 -0500

Did Central Laborers' Pension violate the "anti-cutback" provision of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 when it added to a list of positions that temporarily disqualified pension holders from receiving their benefits?

Curtiss-Wright Corp. v. Schoonejongen - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 06 Mar 1995 12:00:00 -0500

No details yet.

Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Bruch - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 21 Feb 1989 12:00:00 -0500

No details yet.

Great-West Life and Annuity Ins. v. Knudson - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 08 Jan 2002 12:00:00 -0500

Does the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 authorize a suit to enforce a reimbursement provision by a health plan to recover from a beneficiary any proceeds paid by a third party?

Guidry v. Sheet Metal Workers National Pension Fund - Opinion Announcement

Wed, 17 Jan 1990 12:00:00 -0500

No details yet.

Harris Trust & Sav. Bank v. Salomon Smith Barney Inc. - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 12 Jun 2000 12:00:00 -0500

Does section 502(a)(3) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, which authorizes a "participant, beneficiary, or fiduciary" of a plan to bring a civil action to obtain "appropriate equitable relief" to redress violations of ERISA, extend to a suit against a nonfiduciary "party in interest" to a transaction barred by section 406(a)?

Laborers Tr. Fund v. Advanced Lightweight Conc. - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 23 Feb 1988 12:00:00 -0500

No details yet.

Massachusetts v. Morash - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 18 Apr 1989 12:00:00 -0500

No details yet.

Milwaukee Brewery Workers' Pension Plan v. Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 21 Feb 1995 12:00:00 -0500

No details yet.

Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. v. Darden - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 24 Mar 1992 12:00:00 -0500

No details yet.

Pegram v. Herdrich - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 12 Jun 2000 12:00:00 -0500

Are treatment decisions made by a health maintenance organization, acting through its physician employees, fiduciary acts within the meaning of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974?

Sereboff v. Mid Atlantic Medical Services, Inc. - Opinion Announcement

Mon, 15 May 2006 12:00:00 -0500

Is a health insurance plan that requires the beneficiary to reimburse the insurer for its expenses when the beneficiary recovers damages from a third party that is responsible for the injury "equitable" under section 502(a)(3) of ERISA?

Varity Corp. v. Howe - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 19 Mar 1996 12:00:00 -0500

Did the Varity Corporation and Massey-Ferguson, Inc. act their capacity as an Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974fiduciary when they significantly and deliberately misled the beneficiaries? By doing so, did Varity and Massey-Ferguson violate the fiduciary obligations that ERISA imposes upon plan administrators? Does ERISA authorize a lawsuit in such cases?

Yates v. Hendon - Opinion Announcement

Tue, 02 Mar 2004 12:00:00 -0500

Is the owner of a business a "participant" in a profit sharing/pension plan established under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)?