Description

ERISA Survey of Federal Circuits 2024 Edition Brooks R Magratten ISBN 9781639053902

Circuits differ widely in how they handle substantive and procedural ERISA issues. This comprehensive guide, designed for litigators and clients dealing with matters governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), organizes key ERISA issues and case law by federal circuit. Each chapter provides an in-depth review of critical topics, including:

• How the circuit determines whether an ERISA plan governs the dispute

• ERISA preemption of state law

• Exhaustion of administrative remedies

• Standard of review for an administrator’s decision

• Rules of plan interpretation

• Discovery in ERISA cases

• Scope of admissible evidence

• Procedural aspects of ERISA litigation

• Available remedies

• Fiduciary liability claims

The 2024 edition of ERISA Survey of Federal Circuits has been updated to include the latest leading cases on issues such as the fiduciary exception to the attorney-client privilege, procedures for adjudicating ERISA claims, standards for recovering attorneys’ fees, statutes of limitation, ERISA regulations, and litigation involving subrogation and reimbursement rights.

This book serves as an essential desktop resource for frequent ERISA litigators, practitioners seeking current case authority on specific points, and in-house counsel needing to understand how courts in a particular circuit are likely to resolve complex ERISA disputes.

ERISA Survey of Federal Circuits 2024 Edition Brooks R Magratten ISBN 9781639053902, 978-639053902 & 9781639053919

Author
Brooks R Magratten