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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Death benefits, incl. life insurance Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines [Official Guidance] Eighth Circuit Addresses Standard of Review in Long-Term Disability Insurance Dispute (PDF) Current Challenges and Best Practices Concerning Beneficiary Designations in Retirement and Life Insurance Plans (PDF) ERISA Advisory Council to Examine Disability Coverage, Retirement Income and Beneficiary Designations (PDF) Employee Benefits Developments, April 2012 [Guidance Overview] Another Question is Answered in the Who's the Employer Q&A Column Nearly 20% of Life Insurance Shoppers Went Through Workplace Employer-Provided Life Insurance Benefits, 2011 Life Insurance Benefits: Variations Based on Workers' Earnings and Work Schedules [Guidance Overview] Spousal Consent Requirements for Qualified Retirement Plans [Guidance Overview] Unintended Errors in Benefits Communications May Result in Liability under ERISA IRS's Updated Version of Taxable Fringe Benefit Guide [Guidance Overview] Estoppel in ERISA: Simple Mistakes Can Lead to Costly Litigation Use of TPAs to Outsource Benefit Plan Administation Increased Substantially During Past Four Years (PDF) Life Settlements an Option for Retirement [Guidance Overview] Missouri Slayer Law Preempted by ERISA GAO Report: Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance: Retirement Benefit and Retained Asset Account Disclosures Could Be Improved [Guidance Overview] ERISA's Outer Limits: The Admissibility of Extrinsic Evidence in Denied Claims for Plan Benefits How to Avoid Leave-Related Lawsuits Majority of Employees Enroll for Benefits Online Life Insurance Premium Changes on The Way for Some Federal Employees, Retirees Profit Sharing Plan's Spousal Death Benefits Fight Spotlights DOMA Question Text of DOL Amicus Brief, Supplemental, Supporting Plaintiff-Appellant on Panel Rehearing New California Law Requires More Options for Payment of Life Insurance Proceeds [Guidance Overview] Court Affirms Dismissal of Suit Challenging Insurer's Use of Retained Asset Account To Settle Life Insurance Benefits [Guidance Overview] IRS Interim Guidance on Federal Income Tax Treatment of Annuity and Life Insurance Contracts with Long-Term Care Insurance Feature (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Group Life RAAs Fall Outside ERISA, According to Appeals Court [Guidance Overview] Third Circuit Concludes That De Novo Standard Was Appropriate, Given Insurance Policy Language GM Faces another Retiree Benefits Suit Determination of Pension Benefits More Confusion Like on Disclaimers of Death Benefits by Former Spouses Employer Costs for Employee Compensation in March 2011 [Guidance Overview] Terms of Life Insurance Plan, Not State Law, Determined Proper Definition of Domestic Partner Retirement Plan Finances for Surviving Spouse [Official Guidance] Text of DOL's McCravy Amicus Brief, in Support of Petition for Rehearing or Rehearing En Banc ERISA Preemption and Beneficiary Designation Forms Unpaid Life Insurance and Annuity Benefits' Issues Continue to Intensify [Guidance Overview] Supreme Court Speaks on the Remedies for Benefits Description Mistakes [Guidance Overview] Supreme Court Addresses Remedies for Violation of ERISA Disclosure Rules Door to Monetary Awards Against Fiduciaries Is Opening (PDF) At Supreme Court, Employees Win New Benefit Protections Law Firm Investigating Several Life Insurance Companies for Potential Violations of Various State Laws As Well As ERISA [Guidance Overview] Court Rules That Plan Owners Must Get Consent of Spouse to Pass Wealth to Children [Guidance Overview] Fifth Circuit Holds That Accidental Death Benefit Not Payable Due To Exclusion In Plan For Drunk Driving [Guidance Overview] Court Says Spouse Trumps Beneficiary Designation of Children [Guidance Overview] Life Insurance: ERISA And Misrepresentation [Guidance Overview] Court Denies Mother's Claim to Deceased Son's Benefits [Guidance Overview] Beneficiary Designations Under Qualified Plans [Guidance Overview] Court Rules Death Benefits Should Go to Estranged Ex [Guidance Overview] Fifth Circuit Determines That ERISA Preempts State Law Claim That Participant Was Not Married [Guidance Overview] Restrictive New IRS Ruling Affects Tax-Free Exchanges of COLI ERISA Loopholes: Accidental Death Becomes Suicide When Insurers Don't Pay [Official Guidance] EBSA Advisory Opinion 2011-05A: Guidance Regarding Use of Demutualization Proceeds Received by J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. Employee Benefits Plan Cash Value Insurance and Benefit Programs ? When Will It Stop? Hybrid LTC Plans Cited Among 2011 Benefit Trends Top 10 Trends for Life and Health Insurers Program Perspectives on Life and Disability Insurance Benefits (PDF) BLS Looks at Employer-Provided Life and Disability Benefits (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Plaintiff Not Entitled to Accidental Death Benefits Proskauer Rose's ERISA Litigation Newsletter, December 2010 Issue Upcoming Bills May Include Moves to Eliminate Tax Preferences for Insurance and Retirement Plans Important word about authorship: BenefitsLink® (BenefitsLink.com) provides this page for you, containing selected hypertext links to pages on the web that our editors think will be useful or interesting to you. But BenefitsLink is not the author or publisher of those linked pages (except as expressly indicated). 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