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Adam Cantor brings more than 25 years of legal experience to his new role as a partner in Saul Ewing’s Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Practice, including advising clients on a wide array of executive and equity compensation, deferred compensation, and employee benefits matters. He also...
Evolution of Cyber Insurance and the Impact on Cyber and Privacy Risk Management Laurie Kamaiko will speak at the Privacy + Security Forum 2022. Her panel is entitled "Evolution of Cyber Insurance and The Impact on Cyber and Privacy Risk Management." More details to come.
This month’s Friday Five covers cases relating to augmentation of the administrative record following new rationales, attempted alternative ERISA causes of action, untimely ERISA claims, plans governed by ERISA even in the absence of a written plan document, and the limited weight given to residual...
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...
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...
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On June 30th, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in West Virginia v. EPA. The Court concluded that the EPA had exceeded its authority under the Clean Air Act by establishing emission caps in the Clean Power Plan (CPP) that would have required a shift in electrical generation from...
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...
Saul Ewing added Katherine Barrett Wiik as a Minneapolis-based litigation and appellate partner. She earlier practiced at Best & Flanagan. (Saul Ewing)
Katherine Barrett Wiik Moves to Saul Ewing’s Minneapolis Office MINNEAPOLIS, MN—Katherine “Katie” Barrett Wiik has begun new role as a partner in Saul Ewing’s Litigation and Appellate practices.
Wake Up Call: New York AG Convenes Law Firms on Post-Roe Plans Saul Ewing hired former Robins Kaplan business litigation and appeals principal Katherine Barrett Wiik as a partner in Minneapolis.
Katherine “Katie” Barrett Wiik brings more than 15 years of experience to her new role as a partner in Saul Ewing’s Litigation and Appellate practices, including serving as lead attorney in dozens of appeals and securing favorable outcomes for clients in cases before the Sixth, Eighth, and Ninth...
Katherine “Katie” Barrett Wiik brings more than 15 years of experience to her new role as a partner in Saul Ewing’s Litigation and Appellate practices, including serving as lead attorney in dozens of appeals and securing favorable outcomes for clients in cases before the Sixth, Eighth, and Ninth...
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...
Laurie Kamaiko, chair of the Firm's Cyber Insurance Practice, participated in a panel discussion during the NetDiligence Cyber Risk Summit in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The panel covered the following topics: Infrastructure and infrastructure-adjacent vulnerabilities Service provider outlook at...