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Federal District Court Enforces Forum Selection Clause Contained in ERISA Plan
Proskauer's ERISA Practice Center Sept. 8, 2016 "[The court] observed that forum selection clauses further ERISA's goal of promoting a uniform administrative scheme by having the same court decide all cases relating to a single plan, and also found [the participant's] claim of physical and financial limitations irrelevant to its analysis.... In rejecting [contrary rulings by other courts], the court concluded that ERISA's policy that litigants have 'ready access to the Federal courts' was not intended to supersede the general enforceability of forum selection clauses. Thus, a plan may contractually limit the number of locations where an action 'may be brought.' " [Mathias v. Caterpillar, Inc., No. 16-1846 (E.D. Pa. Aug. 29, 2016)] |
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