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	<title>Passion for Subro &#187; MetLife v. Glenn</title>
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		<title>Supreme Court Reverses Lower Courts and Restores ERISA Plan’s Discretion</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 19:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam V. Russo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Employer’s Guide to Self-Insuring Health Benefits, Thompson Publishing Group Employers and other plan administrators are due greater deference in their benefits plan decisions than some lower courts have allowed, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled after admonishing two lower courts for failing to follow the High Court’s prior decisions establishing ERISA law on plan administration. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chronister v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam V. Russo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sandra Chronister was employed as a nurse at Baptist Health in Arkansas. In 1995, she was injured in a car accident, and thereafter sought disability benefits under Baptist Health’s long-term disability plan, which was insured and administered by Unum Life Insurance Co. of America. Unum initially granted her application for disability benefits. At Unum’s urging, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McCauley v. First Unum Life Insurance Co.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 18:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam V. Russo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Glenn, the Second Circuit has reassessed its standard of review governing cases that challenge an ERISA plan administrator’s decision to deny disability benefits in cases where the administrator has a conflict of interest because it has the discretionary authority to determine the validity of the employee’s claim [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Metropolitan Life Case Brings A New Standard to Decisions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam V. Russo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Bench &#8211; The Self-Insurer Volume 26* August 2009 By John H. Eggertsen, Esq. and Michael Friedman, Esq. II. Fifth Circuit Rejects Benefit Decision For Procedural Defects; Can&#8217;t Even Assess If Determination was Arbitrary And Capricious In Lafleur v. Louisiana Health Service Indemnity Company, d/b/a Blue Cross Blue Shield of La., 563 F.3d 148 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Metropolitan Life Case Brings A New Standard to Decisions</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforsubro.com/federal-circuits/6th/metropolitan-life-case-brings-a-new-standard-to-decisions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam V. Russo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Bench &#8211; The Self-Insurer Volume 26* August 2009 By John H. Eggertsen, Esq. and Michael Friedman, Esq. After the U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s recent decision in Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Glenn ___ U.S.___, 128 S. Ct. 2343 (2008), many circuit courts have been applying a magnifying glass to their prior standard of review [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7th Circuit Sends Case Back To District Court To Deal With Conflict Of Interest</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforsubro.com/erisa/7th-circuit-sends-case-back-to-district-court-to-deal-with-conflict-of-interest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam V. Russo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of cases that apply the Supreme Court&#8217;s opinion in Metropolitan Life Insurance Company v. Glenn, 128 S. Ct. 2343 (2008) , when reviewing a decision to deny employee benefits by an administrator with a conflict of interest, continue to grow. The most recent example is Raybourne v. Cigna Life Insurance Company of New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Circuits Change Standard of Review Based on Glenn Decision</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforsubro.com/federal-circuits/3/two-circuits-change-standard-of-review-based-on-glenn-decision/</link>
		<comments>http://www.passionforsubro.com/federal-circuits/3/two-circuits-change-standard-of-review-based-on-glenn-decision/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 14:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam V. Russo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Estate of Schwing v. Lilly Health Plan, 2009 WL 989114 (3rd Cir. 2009) The circuit courts continue to address the U.S. Supreme Court&#8217;s Glenn decision on the standard of review applicable in ERISA benefits litigation. The more deferential standard applies if the plan document gives the plan decision maker &#8220;discretionary&#8221; authority to make benefit decisions. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Post Glenn Decisions</title>
		<link>http://www.passionforsubro.com/federal-circuits/9th/more-post-glenn-decisions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.passionforsubro.com/federal-circuits/9th/more-post-glenn-decisions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 20:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam V. Russo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ninth Circuit, in Daic v. Hawaii Pacific Health Group Plan for Employee of Hawaii Pacific Health, No. 06-17324, 2008 WL 3862074 (9th Cir. Aug. 13, 2008) analyzed whether MetLife, the insurer who administered the ERISA plan but was not a specifically names fiduciary, was nonetheless a plan fiduciary and whether, in light of Glenn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Thoughts on MetLife</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam V. Russo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court held in MetLife vs. Glenn that conflicted interests require a higher standard of review whenever the claims adjudicator and the claims financier were the same.  Thus, any claim contested in court will confer a significant advantage to the arrangement where the claims are adjudicated by an independent third party and paid by [...]]]></description>
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