The Friday Five: Five Current ERISA Litigation Highlights – May 2021 | Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP
This month’s Friday Five covers cases relating to disputes between beneficiaries to life insurance policy proceeds, an insurer’s use of independent medical reviewers and in-house nurses to evaluate claims, the preexisting condition limitation, and shifting attorney’s fees to counsel for the parties (as opposed to the parties themselves). Tenth Circuit Refuses to Drag Insurer Into Dispute Between Life Insurance Beneficiaries. In a dispute over life insurance proceeds, the insurer received and paid life insurance benefits to a beneficiary. Then, after payment to the initial beneficiary, ...