ERISA Law
 
Fabian Thomas v. Denise Daniel

Fort Worth, TX - Divorce lawyer represented Appellee with a dispute over pension benefits.



Thomas began working for the federal government in 1989. He and Daniel
married in 2000. A divorce decree dissolved the marriage in September 2011.
One of the assets divided in the decree was Thomas's fe

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Horacio Eugenio Sobol v. Christine Marie Sobol

Richmond, VA - Divorce lawyer represented appellant with challenging the valuation and distribution of certain assets.



The parties were married in August 1998 and separated approximately twenty years later, on
July 1, 2018. Three children were born of the marriage.

Wife had earned a

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Diana Garner v. US West Disability

Denver, CO – Disability lawyer represented defendant contesting the remand order for the Plan for reconsideration the claim.



Ms. Garner, who has rheumatoid arthritis, was an employee of US West
(now Qwest) from 1969 to 2000. In 2000 she applied for and received shortterm-disability benefits under the Plan. After thes

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United States of America v. David Levy and Mark Nordlicht

New York, NY - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendants with securities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud charges,



Factual Background

A. The Relevant Entities
1. Platinum Partners L.P.
Defendant-appellee Mark Nordlicht and his two partners, Murray

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United States of America v. EDWARD J. ABELL, III

Boston, MA - Criminal defense lawyer represented defendant with eight counts of wire fraud, money laundering, and unlawful monetary transactions charge.



Edward J. Abell, III and Shilo Abell are married and
residents of Massachusetts. Between 2006 and 2017 Edward Abell
served in "finance-related positions," incl

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LOCAL 705 INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF TEAMSTERS PENSION FUND v. ANTHONY PITELLO and PAT PITELLO

Chicago, IL - Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) lawyer represented Defendants-Appellants with a unfunded vested benefits claim.



In 2000, Anthony and Pat Pitello purchased the property
at 2035 N. 15th Avenue, Melrose Park, Illinois ("Melrose Park
Property”) with their father, Pat M. Pitello. Gradei'

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United States of America v. Jeffrey Richie and Wendy Richie

Dallas, Texas embezzlement criminal defense lawyers represented defendants charged with a $15 million retirement plan embezzlement scheme.

Vantage Benefits Administrators co-owner Wendy Richie, 59, pleaded guilty in June to two counts of theft from an employee benefit plan and one count of aggravated identity theft.

Her husband, Vantage co-owner Jeffrey Richie, 55, pleaded guil

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United States of America v. Candi Fluhr

Louisville, Kentucky criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with wire fraud, identity theft, theft and filing false tax returns.

Candi Fluhr, 44, was charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, theft from an employee benefit plan, and filing false tax returns.

“This is a clear-cut example of what happens when talented investigators from multiple agencies

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Gloria Kessler v. Life Insurance Company of North America, d/b/a Cigna

East St. Louis, Illinois insurance law lawyer represented plaintiff on an ERISA insurance law theory.

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JEFFREY L. LUPER v. BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE POLICE & FIRE RETIREMENT SYSTEM OF WICHITA, KANSAS

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Let us fill in a few more details about Luper's claim. He became a firefighter in 1996 and rose through the ranks on the Wichit

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Timothy O'Brien v. AMBS Diagnostics, LLC

A judgment creditor sought to collect a money judgment
from a debtor’s individual retirement accounts. Mere weeks after
we ruled in a published decision that the accounts were only
partially exempt from levy pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure
section 704.115, subdivisions (a)(3) and (e)1 (O’Brien v. AMBS
Diagnostics, LLC (2016) 246 Cal.App.4th 942 (O’Brien II)),the

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Juanita N. Nichols v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company





Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company (“Reliance”) appeals a judgment
granting Juanita Nichols past and future long-term disability (“LTD”)
benefits. We reverse and render judgment for Reliance.
I.
Nichols worked for Peco Foods, Inc. (“Pec

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United States of America v. Anita Harmon




Grand Junction, CO - Steamboat Springs Woman Convicted after Stealing from Profit Sharing Plan

A federal jury sitting in Grand Junction found Anita Harmon, age 62, of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, guilty of two counts of embezzlement from an employee benefit plan. Harmon was ac

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LeTran Tran v. Minnesota Life Insurance Company





Linno Llenos died engaging in an act known as autoerotic asphyxiation.
His widow and beneficiary, LeTran Tran, filed a claim with
Minnesota Life Insurance Company, seeking the proceeds from Llenos’s
ERISA-gov

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Alexander Acosta v. City National Corporation





This case is about liability for self-dealing and breach of fiduciary duties under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”) and the corresponding assessment of damages. Both issues—liability and

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Pam Miletello v. R M R Mechanical, Inc.





This case is a dispute between decedent Gerald Miletello’s ex-wife Sandra and widow Pam about who is entitled to the funds in Gerald’s 401(k) retirement account. The dispute hinges on the existence and timing of a “qualified domestic relat

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Amanda C. Foster v. Principal Life Insurance Company





Amanda Foster worked as an attorney in New Orleans before—by her account—intractable migraines made her stop working. She applied for disability benefits through her law firm’s insurer, Principal Life Insurance Company (“Principal”). After multiple reviews by various doc

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Lou Hodges v. Life Insurance Company of North America





Lou Hodges submitted a claim for long-term-disability (LTD) benefits to Life
Insurance Company of North America (LINA) through his employer’s groupinsurance
plan. Although LINA approved his claim, Hodges asserted that LINA
2
should have classified him as

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Augustine Pacheco v. Honeywell International, Inc.

This is a class action filed in November 2017 by former Minnesota employees
of Honeywell International Inc. who retired before age 65 during the terms of
Honeywell’s 2007 and 2010 collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) with Local
1145 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Plaintiffs alleged that
Honeywell’s announced plan to terminate early retiree healthcare benefits

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Tim P. Brundle v. Wilmington Trust, N.A.




After owners of a closely held corporation sold the company to its Employee Stock Ownership Plan (“ESOP”), a participant in the ESOP brought this action. The participant contended that the trustee chosen for the ESOP by the corporation breached its fiduciary duties to the ESOP and overp

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John Johnston v. Prudential Insurance Company of America





John Johnston appeals a district court1 order finding that Prudential Insurance
Company of America (“Prudential”) did not abuse its discretion when it terminated
his long term disability benefits. We affirm the district court’s order.
1The Honorabl

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Theresa Fortier v. Hartford Life and Accident Insurance Company

A disability insurer, Hartford
Life and Accident Insurance Company ("Hartford"), gave notice to
Theresa Fortier that the long-term disability ("LTD") benefits it
had provided her under the Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinic Company Long
Term Disability Plan (the "Plan") would expire because she had not
shown she was eligible for a continuation of those benefits. The
notice informed

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The Depot, Inc. v. Caring for Montanians, Inc. d/k/a Blue Cross Blue Shield of Monatna





Plaintiffs are three small employers in Montana who are
members of the Montana Chamber of Commerce.
Defendants are health insurance companies that marketed
fully insured health insurance plans to the Chamber’s
members branded “Chamber Choices.” From 2006

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Karen A. Rittinger v. Healthy Alliance Life Insurance Company





This case involves a bariatric surgery gone wrong and the ensuing clash over insurance coverage. Given our highly deferential standard of review, we cannot say that Anthem, the plan administrator, abused its discretion in either the first

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Walid Jammal v. American Family Insurance Company





In this class action, the named plaintiffs represent several thousand current and former insurance agents for American Family Insurance Company and its affiliates (collectively, “American Family” or “the company”). The agents claim that American Family misclassified them as in

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