Bruwier v. Bruwier

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “most circuits have concluded that an action can be maintained against a non-employer” and collecting Court of Appeals decisions
• explaining that a claimant “whose injury creates a cause of action under [§ 1132(a)(1)(B)] may not proceed with a claim under [§ 1132(a)(3)],” and that, by examining the underlying injury, one can determine whether a given claim is duplicative
• affirming dismissal of § 1132(a)(3) claims when they could instead be raised pursuant to § 1132(a)(1)(B)
• remanding for a determination of whether the plaintiff “‘kept his [ERISA] benefits separate from his general assets or dissipated the entire [amount] on nontraceable assets.’”
• upholding dismissal of section 502(a)(3) equitable claims challenging administrative claims procedures that allegedly violated ERISA’s claim administration requirements
• defining a structural conflict of interest to include the conflict of “a fiduciary obligation to participants as claims administrator” when one also “suffers a direct financial loss whenever claims are paid.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).