Brandon v. Travelers Insurance

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “requiring under federal common law that any waiver of ERISA benefits be explicit, voluntary, and made in good faith”
• applying federal common law to resolve conflict where insured never removed former spouse as designated beneficiary but entered into divorce decree divesting spouse of any interest in plan
• because ERISA is silent on the issue, federal common law may be used, guided by state family law
• characterizing employer-provided life-insurance policy as “welfare plan”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).