Alvan H. Wolf v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a defense raised days before trial prejudiced plaintiffs and should not be admitted because it would have re-opened discovery
• holding that “ERISA preemption in a benefits-due action is waivable, not jurisdictional, because it concerns the substantive law but does not implicate the power of the forum to adjudicate the dispute”
• holding that “ERISA preemption in a benefits-due action is waivable, not jurisdictional, because it concerns the substantive law but does not implicate the power of the forum to adjudicate the dispute”
• explaining that whether a defense is “a waivable affirmative defense is a pure question of law”
• noting that “[f]ailure to plead an affirmative defense generally results in waiver of the defense and its exclusion from the case”
• noting that actions under ERISA for a breach of fiduciary duty are “subject to exclusive jurisdiction in the federal courts”

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