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Pension and Employee Benefits Law Practice Exam

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Alessi v. Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc.

451 U.S. 504

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Jurisdiction
United States
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Whether ERISA preempts state laws prohibiting the reduction of pension benefits by workers' compensation offsets, and whether such offsets are permissible under ERISA.
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Butler v. Kellogg Co.

917 F.3d 601

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Jurisdiction
United States
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Whether retiree health benefits under an ERISA welfare plan vest under the plan language.
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Eddy v. Colonial Life Insurance Co.

919 F.3d 114

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Jurisdiction
United States
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Whether a structural conflict of interest (insurer as both evaluator and payor) changes the standard of review for benefit denials.
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DiGiacomo v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Co.

591 F. App'x 52

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Jurisdiction
United States
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Whether an ERISA plan administrator's failure to give weight to a treating physician's opinion and failure to explain why it rejected that opinion constitutes an arbitrary and capricious decision.
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Barker v. American Mobil Power Corp.

64 Va. Cir. 148

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Jurisdiction
United States
Relevance
Whether an employer can unilaterally terminate a welfare benefit plan that promises lifetime retiree health benefits.
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Central Laborers' Pension Fund v. Heinz

541 U.S. 739

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Jurisdiction
United States
Relevance
Whether a plan amendment that expands the categories of work resulting in suspension of benefit payments violates the ERISA anti-cutback rule.
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Lockheed Corp. v. Spink

517 U.S. 882

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Jurisdiction
United States
Relevance
Whether an employer that amends a pension plan to offer early retirement benefits with a waiver requirement breaches fiduciary duties under ERISA.
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Ingersoll-Rand Co. v. McClendon

498 U.S. 133

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Jurisdiction
United States
Relevance
Whether a state law claim for wrongful discharge to avoid pension vesting is preempted by ERISA.
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