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· 3/16/2005

James P. Cotton, Jr. v. Massachusetts Mutual Life

Citations

  • 402 F.3d 1267
  • 35 Employee Benefits Cas. (BNA) 1028
  • 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 4330
  • 2005 WL 604905

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding insurer’s allocation of premium payments, analysis of policy performance, and communications with participants constituted “ministerial policy-related services” that did not “render [the insurer] a fiduciary”
  • stating that “a defaulted defendant is deemed to admit the plaintiff's well-pleaded allegations of fact.”
  • stating that “a defaulted defendant is deemed to admit the plaintiff’s well-pleaded allegations of fact.”
  • holding insurer’s allocation of premium payments, analysis of policy performance, and communications with participants constituted “ministerial policy-related services” that did not “render [the insurer] a fiduciary”
  • stating that a defaulted defendant is deemed to admit the plaintiff’s well-pleaded factual allegations
  • recognizing that court had previously made this error

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Judges: Tjoflat, Anderson, Stafford

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