On Behalf of McKennon Law Group PC | Dec 11, 2012 | Disability Insurance, Disability Insurance News, ERISA, ERISA - Abuse of Discretion, ERISA - Conflict of Interest, ERISA - Standard of Review, Firm News, Insurance Litigation Blog, News
On November 27, 2012, following a trial before Judge Cormac J. Carney of the United States Federal District Court for the Central District of California, Robert J. McKennon and Scott E. Calvert of the McKennon Law Group secured a victory for their client in a lawsuit...
On Behalf of McKennon Law Group PC | Jan 24, 2012 | Disability Insurance, Disability Insurance News, ERISA, ERISA - Standard of Review, Firm News, Insurance Litigation Blog, Insurance Questions and Concepts
This article continues our series of articles answering basic questions about insurance law and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (commonly referred to as “ERISA”). This one addresses: In a lawsuit governed by ERISA, what actions taken by the...
On Behalf of McKennon Law Group PC | Oct 7, 2011 | Disability Insurance, Disability Insurance News, ERISA, ERISA - Standard of Review, Firm News, Insurance Commissioner, Insurance Litigation Blog, Legislation, News
In a major victory for consumers, Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill that makes discretionary clauses – typically contained in ERISA-governed life, health and disability insurance policies/ERISA plans void and unenforceable in new or renewed policies. SB 621 was...
On Behalf of McKennon Law Group PC | Jun 7, 2011 | Disability Insurance, Disability Insurance News, ERISA, ERISA - Standard of Review, Firm News, Insurance Litigation Blog
The Thursday June 3, 2011 edition of the Los Angeles Daily Journal featured Robert McKennon’s article entitled “Boon or Bust for Employee Rights Under ERISA Plans?” In it, Mr. McKennon discusses the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark May 16, 2011 opinion in Cigna Corp. v....
On Behalf of McKennon Law Group PC | Dec 6, 2010 | Disability Insurance, Disability Insurance News, ERISA, ERISA - Abuse of Discretion, ERISA - De Novo Review, ERISA - Standard of Review, Firm News, Insurance Litigation Blog
The Thursday December 1, 2010 edition of the Los Angeles Daily Journal featured the article co-written by Robert J. McKennon and M. Scott Koller, entitled “In ERISA Cases, The Standard of Review Really Does Matter,” in the Perspective column. It explains why it is...
On Behalf of McKennon Law Group PC | Oct 7, 2010 | ERISA, ERISA - Standard of Review, Firm News, Legislation, News
Today Governor Schwarzenegger vetoed AB 1868 that would have banned discretionary clauses in group insurance policies. This is a disappointment to consumer groups but not to insurers who rely on them. Currently, the Department of Insurance bans them in group...
On Behalf of McKennon Law Group PC | Sep 30, 2010 | Disability Insurance, Disability Insurance News, ERISA, ERISA - Standard of Review, Firm News, Insurance Litigation Blog, Legislation, News
Policyholder/Employee groups who have group disability insurance coverage through their employers and who find themselves operating in the byzantine world of ERISA have long criticized discretionary clauses contained in such ERISA policies. These often have the...
On Behalf of McKennon Law Group PC | Jan 14, 2010 | Case Updates, ERISA, ERISA - Abuse of Discretion, ERISA - Conflict of Interest, ERISA - Standard of Review, Firm News, Insurance Litigation Blog, News
Recently, in Montour v. Harford Life & Accident, 582 F.3d 933 (9th Cir. 2009), the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in one of its most important cases, adopted a new standard of reviewing ERISA abuse of discretion cases where the insurer has a conflict of...
