Lynn E. Anweiler v. American Electric Power Service Corporation and Aetna Life Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that fiduciaries breached their duties by not giving beneficiary full and complete information
• finding that defendants breached their fiduciary duties by failing to disclose that a reimbursement agreement related to an employee’s life insurance was revocable at will and that the employee was not required to sign it
• fiduciary’s duty to communicate material information “exists when a beneficiary asks for information, and even when he or she does not”
• “Fiduciaries must also communicate material facts affecting the interests of beneficiaries. This duty exists when a beneficiary asks fiduciaries for information, and even when he or she does not.”
• \An individual may seek equitable relief from a breach of fiduciary duty under section 1132(a)(3).\
• “it is generally our policy to permit amendment with ‘extreme 4 liberality’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).