· 10/3/1991
Associates in Adolescent Psychiatry, S.C. v. Home Life Insurance Co.
Citations
- 941 F.2d 561
- 1991 WL 161083
How courts have described this case
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- holding, in a RICO action, that there was no scheme to defraud when the plaintiffs could have verified the veracity of the allegedly fraudulent statements in newspapers
- finding no fraud where “the truth was under [victim’s] nose in black and white (many times over).”
- insurer did not act as a fiduciary by supplying annuity contracts to fund a plan and giving actuarial advice
- financial consultants and designers of ERISA benefit plan are not fiduciaries unless they have control over plan
- “Documents that unambiguously cover a point control over remembered (or misremembered, or invented) oral statements.”
- providers of pro- fessional services who are advising plans are generally not ERISA fiduciaries unless their services give them decision-making authority over the plan or plan assets
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Judges: Coffey, Easterbrook, Manion
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