Smith v. AEGON USA, LLC

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a contractual venue provision “certainly does not conflict with ERISA’s provision for ‘ready access to the federal courts.’” (citation omitted)
• enforcing forum selection clause in ERISA plan despite plaintiff's objection regarding lack of notice
• noting “Nicolas is the only discovered case in which the court has declined to enforce a forum selection clause because it was superseded by ERISA” and thus declining to follow it
• enforcing forum selection clause in ERISA plan despite lack of notice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).