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This month’s Friday Five covers cases relating to the interpretation of time periods for claims under life insurance and disability plans, a situation where three separate administrators handled a disability benefits claim (but came to different decisions), the Eleventh Circuit’s parsing of...
Property insurers faced with COVID-19 related claims for business income losses can take comfort in the recent trend of most appellate courts to find in favor of insurers that have denied coverage based on policy language requiring direct physical loss or damage. What You Need to Know: Many...
This month’s Friday Five covers cases relating to interpretation of ambiguous policy terms, evaluation of claimant’s expert witness, inclusion of law firms as appropriate parties from whom plan administrators may seek equitable relief, transfer of cases from the claimant’s choice of venue, and...
This month’s Friday Five addresses cases considering: (1) whether monetary relief in the amount of lost benefits is an available remedy for breach of fiduciary duty; (2) the validity of an ex-spouse’s beneficiary designation that contradicts a subsequent divorce decree; (3) if waiver of a pre...
This month’s Friday Five covers cases relating to interpretation of regulatory deadlines, the enforceability of discretionary clauses, circuit courts going both ways on appeals from summary judgment rulings in favor of plans, and a benefits award for a former professional football player where the...
Kathryn Doyle, Partner at Saul Ewing LLP, will be presenting at the NACUA Annual Meeting, June 26-29, 2022, in Pittsburgh. She will be speaking on June 28, 9:15-10:30 a.m., on the topic "You Thought You Owned It, They Might Have Stolen It, and a Medley of Inventor Kerfuffles”. Joining Kathryn will...
Amy Piccola, Partner at Saul Ewing LLP, will be presenting at the 2022 NACUA Annual Conference , June 26-29, 2022, in Pittsburgh. She will be speaking on June 28, 2:00-3:15 p.m., on the topic "In the Penalty Box: Navigating Student Misconduct Issues within Athletics". Issues to be discussed include...
Josh Richards, Partner at Saul Ewing LLP, will be presenting at the 2022 NACUA Annual Conference , June 26-29, 2022, in Pittsburgh. He will be speaking on June 28, 11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m., on the topic "New Revisions to the “Final” Title IX Regulations: Anticipating the NPRM Pendulum Swing". This...
Patrick Nugent, Partner at Saul Ewing LLP, will be presenting at the 2022 NACUA Annual Conference , June 26-29, 2022, in Pittsburgh. He will be speaking on June 27, 8:00-9:15 a.m., on the topic "Navigating the Wild West of Name, Image, Likeness Compliance". Topics to be covered are: The state of NIL...
ATHLETICS RISK MANAGEMENT Saul Ewing attorneys Amy Piccola, Andrea Brockway and Tricia Duffy, along with Sam Swartout of United Educators, will speak at the University & College Insurance Consortium (UCIC) 11th Annual Safety Leadership Conference on June 14th on the topic of Athletics Risk...
To Correct, or to Let Stand? When high-profile figures lie about their academic records, the institutions they attended must perform a delicate balancing act between protecting their privacy and telling the truth. by Liam Knox “The hands of the institution are tied in a lot of ways from getting...
This month’s Friday Five covers cases relating to an award of attorney’s fees (but not) costs, class certification in an ERISA benefits case, a court finding that a physician claimant was disabled from his own occupation, a claimant paying into insurance he thinks he has, and an insurance company...
On April 28, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court held in Cummings v Premier Rehab Keller, P.L.L.C . that emotional distress damages are not recoverable in a private action to enforce several civil rights statutes. While Cummings focused on damages available under the Rehabilitation Act and the Affordable...