Joan Eddy, of the Estate of James Peter Eddy v. Colonial Life Insurance Company of America

How courts have described this case

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• noting insured who was given incorrect information by insurer over telephone “did not have a duty to try and try again until he received correct and complete information”
• finding breach of fiduciary duty where insured asked employer about unavailable “continued” coverage, but employer said nothing about “converted” coverage that was available to the insured
• “A fiduciary’s duty, however, is not discharged simply by the issuance and dissemination of these [summary plan descriptions] and notices.”
• “ ‘A beneficiary, about to plunge into a ruinous course of dealing, may be betrayed by silence as well as by the spoken word.’ ”
• plaintiff inquired about continuation rights for health insurance and fiduciary failed to inform him of conversion rights
• similarly remarking that “[t]he duty to disclose material information is the core of a[n] [ERISA] fiduciary’s responsibility”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).