Articles Posted in ERISA litigation

Nearly all employee benefit plans are governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, or ERISA.  ERISA is a federal law.  As a result, claimants who sue their plans for a denial of disability benefits usually will have to try their cases in federal courts. More importantly, in…

In lawsuits challenging an ERISA plan’s denial of long-term disability benefits, can claimants who have qualified for Social Security disability benefits use that as evidence in their case?  Or, to put it another way, can a decision from the Social Security Administration (SSA) on a claimant’s disability status be a…