Salisbury v. Hartford Life & Accident Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the Tenth Circuit does not approve of circuits that refuse to “enforce contractual limitations provision simply because the plan allowed the claimant’s cause of action to accrue before the end of the administrative process.”
• “Choosing which state statute to borrow is unnecessary, however, where the parties have contractually agreed upon a limitations period.” (citation omitted)
• “Choosing which state statute to borrow is unnecessary, however, where the parties have contractually agreed upon a limitations period.” (citation omitted)
• “An ERISA plan is nothing more than a contract, in which parties as a general rule are free to include whatever limitations they desire.”
• “An ERISA plan is nothing more than a contract….”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).