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First Circuit Decision on Use of Retained Asset Accounts to Pay Life Insurance Benefits Could Have Broader Implications
BakerHostetler Link to more items from this source
July 21, 2014
"Conventional wisdom holds that ERISA's protections, and ERISA's daunting fiduciary and conflict of interest requirements, all cease to apply at the point at which the promised 'benefit' gets delivered.... [This case] adds support to the view that, so long as the benefit being promised clearly can consist of an account (rather than cash or its equivalent), delivery is complete when control over the account is delivered. That principle may well crop up in other contexts involving other types of ERISA plans, such as when employer stock (or perhaps an annuity contract) come to be distributed from a 401(k) plan or a similar savings plan." [Merrimon v. Unum Life Insurance Co. of America, No. 13-2128P-01A (1st Cir. July 2, 2014)]

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