Klein v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance

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• allowing discovery 2 “into the compensation, guidance, and performance evaluations given to the people 3 involved in the handling of [plaintiff’s] claim” where defendant operated under a structural 4 conflict of interest
• “[T]here is no reason to assume that Congress intended to exempt insurance companies from the disclosure obligations of ERISA simply because it exempted them from the requirement to hold plan assets in trust.”

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