Hamilton v. Standard Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that when an ERISA benefit plan is a group employment plan as opposed to a single policy, it is “issued” to the employer rather than each individual employee
• clarifying that the group policyholder’s residence determines the state insurance laws that apply to the policy
• noting that Woo’s “sliding scale approach” is “somewhere between abuse of discretion and de novo” but declining to address the proper standard because the administrator’s decision was affirmable “even under a de novo standard of review”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).