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· 8/29/2005

Joyce Vitale v. Latrobe Area Hospital

Citations

  • 420 F.3d 278
  • 35 Employee Benefits Cas. (BNA) 2057
  • 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 18579
  • 2005 WL 2063879

How courts have described this case

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

  • stating that “employer fiduciaries have ‘incentives to avoid the loss of morale and higher wage demands that could result from the denial of benefits;’ these incentives are absent, or at least attenuated, when an insurer serves as an ERISA fiduciary”
  • describing a narrow exception to the general rule regarding final orders that treats an order as final as long as the relief can be determined through a mechanical and uncontroversial calculation even if relief is not specified in the order

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Judges: Alito, Becker, Shadur

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