Mullins v. Prudential Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the defendant’s “passing reference” to the existence of the administrative record was insufficient to answer interrogatory requesting facts to support the defendant’s affirmative defense
• finding that discovery of attorney’s fees that defendant sought to discover was “somewhat premature” and denying request for production of such information
• stating that production of materials regarding claims personnel training “would not appear to the Court to necessarily bear directly on any potential bias of those employees who were directly involved in the administration of Mullins’[s] own claim”
• noting the “essential question” is “what must a plaintiff in an ERISA [action] show in order to embark upon such a foray”
• noting the conclusion of district courts in Kentucky and Tennessee that Glenn “liberalized discovery to a degree” in ERISA cases
• requiring the defendant to produce any documents to which it “in its interrogatory responses referred ... outside the administrative record

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Gluc v. Prudential Life Insurance Co. of America
  W.D. Kentucky· 2015-08-05· cited 12×
• Kasko v. Aetna Life Insurance
  E.D. Kentucky· 2014-07-21· cited 9×
• Myers v. Anthem Life Insurance
  W.D. Kentucky· 2016-03-22· cited 7×
• Clark v. American Electric Power System Long Term Disability Plan
  W.D. Kentucky· 2012-07-02· cited 6×
• Mulligan v. Provident Life & Accident Insurance
  E.D. Tennessee· 2011-01-07· cited 4×

Cites

23 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Bruch
  Supreme Court· 1989-02-21· cited 6,595×
• Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Glenn
  Supreme Court· 2008-06-19· cited 1,751×
• Bob G. Wilkins v. Baptist Healthcare System, Inc. Life Insurance Company of North America
  Sixth Circuit· 1998-08-04· cited 535×
• Connie M. Miller v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
  Sixth Circuit· 1991-02-15· cited 349×
• Max W. Perry v. Simplicity Engineering, a Division of Lukens General Industries, Inc., a Delaware Corporation
  Sixth Circuit· 1990-04-12· cited 301×
• Linda Gail Calvert v. Firstar Finance, Inc., F/k/a Star Bank Corporation, and Liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston
  First Circuit· 2005-05-17· cited 280×
• Unnamed case
  Sixth Circuit· 2006-08-07· cited 219×
• Richard Kalish v. Liberty Mutual/liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston
  Sixth Circuit· 2005-08-18· cited 166×
• Sharon Bonds v. District of Columbia and Director, District of Columbia Department of Corrections
  D.C. Circuit· 1996-08-23· cited 160×
• In re Sulfuric Acid Antitrust Litigation
  N.D. Illinois· 2005-08-26· cited 60×
• Rainbow Pioneer 44-18-04a, a General Partnership v. Hawaii-Nevada Investment Corporation, a Nevada Corporation, and Herman B. Rothbard
  Ninth Circuit· 1983-07-28· cited 40×
• Kendall v. Ges Exposition Services, Inc.
  D. Nevada· 1997-08-08· cited 39×
• Putney v. Medical Mutual
  Sixth Circuit· 2004-09-10· cited 26×
• Cambridge Electronics Corp. v. MGA Electronics, Inc.
  C.D. California· 2004-06-22· cited 26×
• In re G-I Holdings Inc.
  D. New Jersey· 2003-07-17· cited 25×
• United States ex rel. Englund v. Los Angeles County
  E.D. California· 2006-05-12· cited 23×
• Myers v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America
  E.D. Tennessee· 2008-09-22· cited 22×
• Dunkin' Donuts Inc. v. N.A.S.T., Inc.
  N.D. Illinois· 2005-12-28· cited 18×
• Ginn v. Gemini Inc.
  D. Nevada· 1991-06-05· cited 18×
• McQueen v. Life Insurance Co. of North America
  E.D. Kentucky· 2009-01-27· cited 13×