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• Law Firm Informant Points Finger at Lawyer for Other Lawyers in Pension Cases

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 679
  A lawyer representing other lawyers in an ongoing probe of New York pensions being paid to attorneys who alleged did government legal work as private practitioners while being reported as state employees may himself have a dubious claim to his more than $120,000-a-year pension. Citing claims by an unidentified ...
  1 day ago

• Disability Attorney Named to Board of Advisors at St. Johns University Center for Labor and Employment Law

  
  The New York Disability Law Blog — Authority: 106
  I am looking forward to attending the Inaugural Dinner of the new St. Johns University School of Law Center for Labor and Employment Law at the Williams Club in New York City this Thursday. In attendance will be our Law Schools  new Dean, Michael A. Simons .  I am deeply honored to have been asked to become an ...
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• 17 Reasons to Say No to H.R. 3962

  
  Building A Better Indiana — Authority: 131
  Not quite sure you understand this health care reform debate? Saying to yourself — yes, we need to change the current system, but what exactly will this House bill they’re going to vote on tomorrow do to business? Businesses that, by the way, provide the jobs that allow people to have health insurance in the first ...
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• A Belated Halloween Treat or Trick from the Eighth Circuit

  
  Pension Risk Matters — Authority: 106
  ERISA legal expert and Ropes & Gray LLP partner, Attorney Andrew L. Oringer provides an interesting insight into a recent case about the investment of excess assets and prudence. The case he cites can be downloaded by clicking here . Note the courts opinion on page 5 wherein it writes that the plaintiff, ...
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• Exposing a Provision That Extends Immunity for Insurance Companies

  
  RedState — Authority: 810
  
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• A Summary of the Government Takeover of Health Care

  
  Start Thinking Right — Authority: 475
  This is a prepared House Republican document which you can view as a PDF file here . House Democrat Health “Reform” Legislation: Short Summary of the Government Takeover of Health Care October 29, 2009 BACKGROUND AND EXECUTIVE SUMMARY On October 29, 2009, Speaker Pelosi and the House Democrat leadership ...
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• Doctors versus Retail Bankers

  
  Medical Executive-Post @ Healthcare Financials.com — Authority: 133
  Understanding Modern RealityBy Dr. David Edward Marcinko; MBA, CMP™[Publisher-in-Chief]Doctors often carry notoriously heavy debt loads. Beyond the costs of a medical education are substantial costs for equipping, launching and staffing a practice. Technology changes fast these days and capital is required ...
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• Montana Wins ERISA Disability Claim Discretionary Clause Appeal - Why Doesnt New York Have Similar Ban?

  
  The New York Disability Law Blog — Authority: 106
  "Discretionary Clauses" in ERISA disability insurance policies are the largest cause of unfair  ERISA LTD claim denials  across the country. They essentially create an uneven playing field  in favor of an already powerful insurance company over a disabled claimant.  Imagine if the Yankees were forced to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Subro Provision in Comrade Pelosi’s Bill

  
  Passion for Subro — Authority: 131
  The Law Offices of Bryan DavenportWe just received an email from Bryan Davenport regarding Pelosi’s subrogation bill:I have reviewed Comrade Pelosi’s bill. We aren’t safe. See section 236 Section states “The Commissioner shall establish standards for the coordination and subrogation of benefits and ...
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• Insurer ends health program rather than pay out big

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 113
  Washington Times, October 14, 2009 Insurer ends health program rather than pay out big Ian Pearl has fought for his life every day of his 37 years. Confined to a wheelchair and hooked to a breathing tube, the muscular dystrophy victim refuses to give up. But his insurance company already has. Legally barred ...
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• 9th Cir: States May Bar Discretionary Clauses in ERISA Plans

  
  Alaska Employment Law — Authority: 122
  Montana’s insurance commissioner has historically disapproved insurance policies that grant discretion to the insurer concerning actions on applications for benefits.  The 9th Circuit has upheld that practice, rejecting an insurer’s claim that the practice is preempted by ERISA.  Standard Ins. Co. v. Morrison, ...
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• Free Webinar on Never Events

  
  Passion for Subro — Authority: 131
  
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• Divorce Me for My Money, Or Love, Continental Style

  
  Boston ERISA Law Blog — Authority: 108
  This is one of the great ERISA stories of all time - its like something out of a Boston Legal episode. I am speaking, of course, of the case, detailed here , of the Continental pilots who, concerned that the retirement plan may go belly up long before they retire, divorced their wives, executed QDROs transferring the ...
  2 weeks ago

• California Sues State Street Bank and Trust

  
  Investment Fraud Lawyer Blog — Authority: 421
  The Wall Street Journal reported on October 20th that California Attorney General Jerry Brown has sued State Street Bank and Trust. Brown is seeking to recover $200 million in illegal overcharges and penalties that the bank misappropriated from two state agencies, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System ...
  3 weeks ago

• Healthcare 101

  
  My Mind, Body & Health — Authority: 152
  A colleague of mine sent me this (sort of) primer on health care written by an attorney named Chandra Westergaard. It’s called ” Introduction and History of Health Insurance in the United States”. In it she lays out the different terms, laws, etc. involved in health care and a brief history of each. She makes no ...
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• Airline’s Sham Divorce Case Over Pilot Pension Payments Doesn’t Fly

  
  ABA Journal Top Stories — Authority: 679
  Nine Continental Airlines pilots apparently thought they had found a wily way to get around benefits rules when they divorced their wives, which allowed the women to collect pension money in a lump sum, and then remarried their ex-spouses. And they were right, according to a federal judges ruling yesterday. U.S. ...
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• Mr. Chow Substitutes Bertram Fields for Alan Kluger!

  
  South Florida Lawyers — Authority: 478
  I dont know, is my coverage of this Mr. Chow suit pending before Judge Hoeveler getting borderline chronic? We saw what happened when I tried to delve into the hot monkey judicial love that is ERISA . So lets get back to my mespucha Alan. WHOA -- no more Alan: Plaintiffs Michael Chow, known as “Mr. ...
  4 weeks ago

• State Single Payer Amendments

  
  Working for Our Common Good — Authority: 134
  Kucinich Amendment Grants ERISA Waiver for Single Payer States.Sanders Senate Amendment Would Expand Support for Single Payer StatesThe Center for Policy Analysis worked closely with Congressional staff to craft the two amendments to health reform legislation that offer the greatest prospects for single payer ...
  5 weeks ago

• Rosasco Lectures Again to Social Security Disability Attorneys on LTD Claims at NOSSCR Conference in San Francisco

  
  The New York Disability Law Blog — Authority: 106
  I had the pleasure to lecture to Social Security Disability Lawyers this past Spring at the NOSSCR Conference in Washington, DC about " Winning Long Term Disability Claims at the Initial Level ". They have invited me back to lecture on the topic of " Winning your First ERISA Long Term Disability Administrative ...
  6 weeks ago

• Michael Vick Gets Released From the ERISA Doghouse, But Could You be Next?

  
  Employer Law Report — Authority: 108
  Sports fans, you can breath easier about your fantasy football lineups -- Michael Vick is out of the doghouse with the U.S. Department of Labor, presuming he complies with a consent judgment. We had cautioned in an earlier post that Vick’s release from prison did not necessarily mark the end of his government ...
  6 weeks ago

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