Metropolitan Life Insurance Company v. Tracy Bigelow

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• finding that a DRO could be qualified when it clearly specified each plan to which it applied by identifying the plan as the “General Electric insurance plan which consists of group life insurance, disability death and insurance”
• “[T]he issuances of [a] life insurance policy to fund the benefits under an ERISA plan confers federal question jurisdiction as to the appropriate distribution of its proceeds.”
• “The Committee intends that an order will not be treated as failing to be a qualified order merely because the order does not specify the current mailing address of the participant and alternate payee if the plan administrator has reason to know that address independently of the order”

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