Cynthia Larson v. United Healthcare Insurance Co

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that a claim for benefits “is governed by a federal common law of contract keyed to the policies codified in ERISA”
• dismissing the breach of fiduciary claim when the complaint targets decision-making about policy terms
• insurance company that “decide[d] contractual eligibility and benefits questions and pa[id] the claims” was appropriate defendant in denial of benefits claim
• “[W]hen an employee-benefits plan includes an insurance policy, contract terms mandated by state insurance law become plan terms.”
• “the obligor is the proper defendant on an ERISA claim to recover plan benefits”
• Harris Trust concluded that “nonplan defendants are subject to suit under § 1132(a)(3)”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).