Alabama ERISA Law

Sheila David v. Hartford Accident and Life Insurance Company

Florence, Alabama insurance law lawyer represented Plaintiff who sued Defendant on an E.R.S.A. law theory. This case was filed in the Circuit Court of Lauderdale County, Alabama, 41-cv-22-900005 and was removed to federal court by the Defendant. The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) is a federal law that sets minimum standards for most voluntarily establishe... More...

$1 (05-11-2023 - AL)

Carol H. Stewart v. Harford Life and Accident Insurance Company

Birmingham, Alabama insurance law lawyers represented Plaintiff, who sued Defendant on a breach of contract theory. Carol Stewart sued to obtain two insurance benefits that she believes Hartford Insurance Company owes her: (1) long-term dis- ability payments and (2) a waiver of life-insurance premiums. Alt- hough it concedes that Stewart was covered by its policy, Hartford ... More...

$0 (08-10-2022 - AL)

Peggy Bender v. Mazda Motor Corporation

Appellants, Mazda Motor Company and Ford Motor Company ("Appellantsâ€), appeal the district court's order denying their Rule 60(b) motion for the district court to reconsider its previous order remanding the case to state court. In support of their motion, Appellants claimed that, in light of a recent opinion issued by this court clarifying the method for calculating the amount-incontroversy ... More...

$0 (09-23-2011 - AL)

Frank Blankenship v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

benefits decisions by MetLife, the ERISA plan administrator, we consider whether the decisions were reasonable and entitled to deference. Pointing chiefly to MetLife's structural conflict of interest as both administrator and payor of benefits, the district court ruled that MetLife arbitrarily and capriciously denied Blankenship's benefits requests. We conclude that a reasonable basis supported Me... More...

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<a href="http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/ops/200516509.pdf" target="_new">Theron Oliver v. Coca Cola Company, Broadside Services, Inc.</a>

Defendant-appellants The Coca-Cola Company ("Coca-Cola") and Broadspire Services, Inc. ("Broadspire") appeal the district court's entry of summary judgment, calculation of damages, and award of attorney's fees and expenses in favor of Plaintiff-appellee Theron Oliver.1 Oliver sought benefits under Coca-Cola's long term disability plan, and brought suit after Broadspire and Coca-Cola denied... More...

$208649 (08-31-2007 - AL)

<a href="http://www.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/ops/200216733.pdf" target="_new">David Ogden and Camilla Ogden v. Blue Bell Creameries U.S.A., Inc.</a>

This case presents us with the question of whether a plaintiff may seek equitable relief under Section 502(a)(3) of the Employment Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA"), 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a)(3), when the doctrine of res judicata bars his Section 502(a)(1)(B), 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a)(1)(B), claim for recovery of benefits due under a welfare benefits plan. The district court found th... More...

$0 (10-28-2003 - AL)

<a href="http://www.law.emory.edu/11circuit/feb2003/02-11990.opn.html" target="_new">Household Bank, f.s.b., et al. v. The JFS Group, et al.</a>

We must decide whether the district court erred in dismissing this declaratory judgment action for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction, notwithstanding the existence of an actual controversy between the parties regarding non-frivolous federal claims that could be brought by the defendants in a coercive action. The district court held that it lacked subject-matter jurisdiction because the plaintiff... More...

$0 (02-18-2003 - AL)

<a href="http://www.law.emory.edu/11circuit/jan2003/02-13230.opn.html" target="_new">Gloria Watts v. Bellsouth Telecommunications, Inc.</a>

We have held a number of times that a claimant's failure to exhaust the administrative remedies that an ERISA plan provides for challenging the denial of a benefits claim ordinarily bars her from pursuing that claim in court. E.g., Counts v. Am. Gen. Life & Accident Ins. Co., 111 F.3d 105, 108 (11th Cir. 1997). We have never decided the issue presented in this case, however, which is whether that ... More...

$0 (01-07-2003 - AL)

<a href="http://www.law.emory.edu/11circuit/dec2001/01-10829.opn.html" target="_new">Bill Gilbert v. Alta Health & Life Insurance Company, et al.</a>

This appeal involves the scope of state law preemption under the Employment Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1461. Specifically, the case presents two questions: (1) whether ERISA's saving clause applies to Alabama's bad faith law, saving it from preemption by ERISA; and (2) whether a sole shareholder of a corporation can be a "beneficiary," within the meaning of... More...

$0 (12-27-2001 - AL)

<a href="http://www.law.emory.edu/11circuit/apr2002/01-11863.opn.html" target="_new">Marie Anderson, Alvester Brafort, et al. v. H & R Block, Inc., et al.</a>

The plaintiffs, who as customers of H&R Block, Inc. had taken out tax refund anticipation loans (1) from Beneficial National Bank, brought suit in state court against H&R Block, Beneficial National Bank, and Beneficial Tax Masters, Inc., alleging usury violations (2) along with other state-law claims. The defendants removed the case to federal court on the basis of federal question jurisdiction. T... More...

$0 (04-04-2002 - AL)