Duhaime v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that ERISA “requires employees to take full advantage of employer-internal appeals processes before bringing suit to recover denied benefits”
• comparing supervisor’s grades of plaintiff’s performance with grades of other employees
• comparing supervisor’s grades of plaintiff’s performance with grades of other employees
• collecting cases to demonstrate that “after final judgment has [been] entered, our strong interest in the finality of judgments leads courts to intervene in a search for evidence of fraud only if there has been some showing that a fraud actually has occurred”
• “Mere negligence and ‘innocent mistake[s]’ are not sufficient 3 to establish liability under the FCA.”
• “Rule 23(e) requires judicial approval of class action settlements to guard against possible ineffective representation of absentees’ interests by the representative parties.” (quoting In re Gen. Motors Corp. Engine Interchange Litig., 594 F.2d 1106, 1139 (7th Cir. 1979)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).