ERISA Litigation Podcast

ERISA Litigation Episode 005 - Conkright v. Frommert

btolk@parrbrown.com (Bentley Tolk) — Sat, 29 May 2010 17:17:40 +0000

In ERISA Litigation episode 005, Bentley Tolk (Parr Brown Gee & Loveless, Salt Lake City, UT) examines the U.S. Supreme Court’s April 21, 2010 Conkright v. Frommert decision. The Conkright decision is significant for its clarification of the standard of review under ERISA when a plan administrator makes an “honest” mistake in interpreting the plan. According to the Supreme Court, one “honest” mistake in interpreting a plan is not enough to strip a plan administrator of deference for subsequent related interpretations of the plan.

I welcome your comments below.

http://media.libsyn.com/media/erisalitigation/ERISAlitigation-005-ConkrightM.outpu.mp3

ERISA Litigation Episode 4: Two Standard of Review Cases

btolk@parrbrown.com (Bentley Tolk) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:34:16 +0000

In ERISA Litigation episode 4 (due to the digital re-mastery of episode 2), Bentley Tolk explores two standard of review cases from the 7th Circuit.

http://media.libsyn.com/media/erisalitigation/04_04_ERISA_Litigation_Live-004-BJTj.mp3

ERISA Litigation Episode 2 Digitally Remastered: ERISA Preemption & Post-Glenn

btolk@parrbrown.com (Bentley Tolk) — Fri, 29 May 2009 22:56:18 +0000

While ERISA Litigation episode 2 has already been released, we are now releasing the digitally remastered version. As mentioned previously, episode 2 addresses ERISA preemption and post-Glenn precedent.

http://media.libsyn.com/media/erisalitigation/03_ERISA_Litigation_Live-003-Preempt.mp3

ERISA Preemption And Post-Glenn Precedent

btolk@parrbrown.com (Bentley Tolk) — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:55:10 +0000

In the second episode, Bentley Tolk of Parr Brown Gee & Loveless interviews Michael J. Salmanson of Salmanson Goldshaw, PC about some recent cases involving ERISA preemption: Golden Gate Restaurant Ass’n v. City and County of San Francisco, 546 F.3d 639 (9th Cir. 2008); Golden Gate Restaurant Ass’n v. City and County of San Francisco, 2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 5191 (9th Cir. Mar. 9, 2009); and American Council of Life Insurers v. Ross, No. 08-1406 (6th Cir. Mar. 18, 2009). Those cases have important implications for ERISA litigation defense - both in the Ninth and Sixth Circuits, and in Utah and elsewhere.

The second portion of the episode addresses how the lower courts have responded to the Supreme Court’s decision in Metro. Life Ins. Co. v. Glenn, 128 S. Ct. 2343 (2008). Specifically, the episode explores the following cases on this topic: Doyle v. Liberty Life Assur. Co. of Boston, 542 F.3d 1352 (11th Cir. 2008); and McCauley v. First Unum Life Insur. Co., 551 F.3d 126 (2d Cir. 2008).

We welcome your comments below.

ERISA Litigation Live-002-Preemption & Glenn

Discovery in ERISA Benefits Cases?

btolk@parrbrown.com (Bentley Tolk) — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:06:02 +0000

In the first episode, Bentley Tolk of Parr Brown Gee & Loveless interviews Brian S. King about discovery in ERISA litigation cases.

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