South Carolina ERISA Law
Blakelie Chapman v. Hartford Life and Accident Insurance Company
<h2><br> Greenville, South Carolina E.R.I.S.A.-Employee Benefits claim employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff.<br> </h2><br> <br> The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) is a federal law that regulates employee benefits, such as retirement, health care, disability, accident, and death benefits. ERISA sets minimum standards for private sector plans, and protects individuals in... More...
$1 (10-11-2024 - SC)Debbie McCravy v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Plaintiff Debbie McCravy sued Defendant Metropolitan Life Insurance Company ("MetLife"), alleging, among other things, breach of fiduciary duty, and seeking damages under the "other appropriate equitable relief" provision of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act ("ERISA"), 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a)(3). The district court granted McCravy summary judgment, but limited her damages to the return of... More...
$0 (05-16-2011 - SC)Larry Carden v. Aetna Life Insurance Compan
In paying Larry Carden monthly benefits under a long-term disability plan governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA"), Aetna Life Insurance Company, the insurer and administrator of the plan, offset workers' compensation benefits that Carden received for an illness unrelated to his disability. Aetna relied on its reading of the plan's offset provisions and the plan la... More...
$0 (03-11-2009 - SC)Sherry Pressley v. Tupperware Long Term Disability Plan; the Prudential Insurance Company of America
Sherry Pressley appeals from the district court's dismissal, for being time-barred, of her claim against The Prudential Insurance Company of America ("Prudential") for its failure to respond to a request for information, in contravention of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1461 ("ERISA"). See Pressley v. Tupperware Long Term Disability Plan, No. 4:05-cv-... More...
$0 (01-30-2009 - SC)<a href="http://pacer.ca4.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=011705.P" target="_new">Suzanne Bynum v. Cigna Healthcare of North Carolina</a>
Suzanne Bynum initiated this ERISA civil action in the District of South Carolina against CIGNA Healthcare of North Carolina, Incorporated ("CIGNA"), maintaining that CIGNA had improperly denied her infant daughter's claim for health benefits for treatment of a skull deformity. The district court reversed CIGNA's decision and awarded the benefits sought by Ms. Bynum's daughter. CIGNA has appea... More...
$0 (06-24-2002 - SC)<a href="http://pacer.ca4.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=011705.P" target="_new">Suzanne Bynum v. Cigna Healthcare of North Carolina, Inc.</a>
Suzanne Bynum initiated this ERISA civil action in the District of South Carolina against CIGNA Healthcare of North Carolina, Incor- porated ("CIGNA"), maintaining that CIGNA had improperly denied her infant daughter's claim for health benefits for treatment of a skull deformity. The district court reversed CIGNA's decision and awarded the benefits sought by Ms. Bynum's daughter. CIGNA has ap... More...
$0 (04-22-2002 - SC)<a href="http://pacer.ca4.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=011804.U" target="_new">Betty S. Simpson v. Safeco Life Insurance Company</a>
The shooting occurred in Jacus' home on June 13, 1998. A few minutes before Jacus shot himself, he walked into a room in which his uncle, Johnny Lee Turner, was watching television. When Jacus began removing the bullets from a pistol, Turner told Jacus, "Don't be playing with any guns," to which Jacus responded, "I'm not, I'm gonna be safe." J.A. 35 (internal quotation marks omitted). Jacus t... More...
$0 (01-22-2002 - SC)<a href="http://pacer.ca4.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/getopn.pl?OPINION=001894.U" target="_new">Rickey B. Bryant, et al. v. Food Lion, Inc., et al.</a>
This case comes to us after some ten years of proceedings in the district court, which culminated in a bench trial spanning several weeks during 1997. On May 26, 2000, the district court entered a 74- page opinion setting forth its findings of facts and conclusions of law pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 52. The result was a judgment in favor of the defendants on all claims of the plaintiffs tha... More...
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