ERISA’s notorious preemption clause is no more than a few lines of text. But it has a dramatic effect on the trillions of dollars flowing through ERISA pension and health plans in any given year. The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to define the...
ERISA does not preempt everything, as illustrated by a recent case decided by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. There, Wilmington Trust was forced to settle an ERISA case after a Court found that it breached its ERISA fiduciary...
In a unanimous 8-0 decision (with Justice Barret not participating), the U.S. Supreme Court once again entered the thicket of ERISA preemption in Rutledge v. Pharm. Care Mgmt. Ass’n, No. 18-540, 2020 U.S. LEXIS 5988 (Dec. 10, 2020). The Court held that ERISA preempts an...
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