Karen Brake v. Hutchinson Technology Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that, to the extent an area of state law is not preempted by ERISA, a choice-of-law clause in an ERISA plan should be followed as long as the clause is not unreasonable or fundamentally unfair.
• declining to apply law of South Dakota (plaintiff’s home state and the forum state) disallowing discretion clause in health-insurance policies
• finding, in part, South Dakota law inapplicable where the statute only applied to insurance policies issued or renewed after a certain date and the events underlying the action occurred prior to that date
• “[W]e take this inherent financial conflict of interest into account in deciding whether an abuse of discretion has occurred.”
• enforcing choice of law provision selecting state containing employer’s headquarters

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).