Wachtel v. Health Net, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• declining to apply the fiduciary exception to an insurer who sells, but does not manage, insurance to ERISA-regulated parties
• “Waiting until discovery is completed on this issue is the best course to resolve this potential conflict.”
• discussing situations in which courts have held the fiduciary exception does not apply
• “[Fiduciary duties under ERISA ‘draw much of their content from the law of trusts, the law that governed most benefit plans before ERISA’s enactment.’ ”
• “[W]e have not yet had the opportunity to decide whether the [fiduciary exception] should apply within our circuit.”
• “We recognize that in a number of circuits it is well-settled that the fiduciary exception can apply to ERISA fiduciaries.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).