Oakland, CA
Employee benefits Lawyer at Oakland, CA
Practice Areas: Employee Benefits
OUTCOME: Settled
Interpreted DOL Regulations favorably to determine that the plaintiff had appropriately exhausted her administrative remedies prior to filing suit. The defendant insurer is held to a standard of stric ... t compliance.
OUTCOME: Win
Awarding disability benefits to plaintiff and finding credible his and his doctors' reports of pain stemming from upper extremity injury.
OUTCOME: win and remand
concerning the question of offsets to disability benefits an ordering an award of prejudgment interest in an amount to be determined on remand to the district court
OUTCOME: Plaintiff
awarding long-term disability benefits and finding that MetLife operated under a conflict of interest and abused its discretion
OUTCOME: Plaintiff
holding that traditional summary judgment rules apply in evaluating an administrator’s conflict of interest and permitting bench trials with live testimony on the issue
OUTCOME: Plaintiff
holding that insurers must engage in a clear communications process in administering ERISA benefit claims
OUTCOME: Plaintiff
holding that the administrator could not offset the participant’s disability benefits by the amount of her son’s Social Security benefit
OUTCOME: Plaintiff
overruling previous Ninth Circuit precedent to determine that where a plan administrator operates under a financial conflict of interest, courts must review the administrator’s benefits decisions with ... “skepticism”
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