Allan E. Rud v. Liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that Carnival Cruise Lines “brushed aside the arguments that many consumers don’t read the fine print in their contracts and do not appreciate the significance, or perhaps even the meaning, of a forum-selection clause”
• explaining that Carnival Cruise Lines “brushed aside the arguments that many consumers don’t read the fine print in their contracts and do not appreciate the significance, or perhaps even the meaning, of a forum-selection clause”
• claimant must “demonstrate the existence of a real and not merely notional conflict of interest”
• again recognizing the possibility of using equitable estoppel to treat someone other than the official plan administrator as the plan administrator
• claimant must “demonstrate the existence of a real and not merely notional conflict of interest”
• again recog- nizing the possibility of using equitable estoppel to treat someone other than the official plan administrator as the plan administrator

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