Debruyne v. Equitable Life Assurance Society

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he ‘affidavit,’ which did not subject Hanan to the penalties for perjury, was not within the range of evidence that the district court could consider.”
• New York insurance law prohibiting certain unfair insurance practices not saved from ERISA preemption
• Where plaintiffs alleged misrepresentation claims against ERISA fiduciary, the court held that they “cannot avoid the statute of limitations by possessing, but failing to read, the documents that would put them on inquiry notice.”
• affidavit that was not notarized and unable to invoke § 1746 “was not within the range of evidence that the district court could consider” on a motion for reconsideration of a summary judgment opinion
• ERISA requires “prudence, not prescience”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).