925 F. Supp. 2d 242 - Amara v. Cigna Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1022 (§ 102 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1109 (§ 409 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Firestone Tire and Rubber Company v. Bruch · General Telephone Co. of Southwest v. Falcon · Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance v. Russell · Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts · Varity Corporation v. Howe
Most-quoted passages
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“CIGNA's deficient notice led to its employees’ misunderstanding of the content of the contract, and CIGNA did not take steps to correct their mistake. Instead, CIGNA affirmatively misled and prevented employees from obtaining information that would have aided them in evaluating the distinctions between the old and new plans. Furthermore, CIGNA sought and obtained an advantage from its inequitable actions. As a result of CIGNA's fraud, its employees were mistaken as to their retirement benefits.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“those losses (or harms or injuries) that a plaintiff-beneficiary can establish were caused by the fiduciary breach,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[p]laintiffs met their initial burden of establishing that [defendant] breached its fiduciary duty and that [p]laintiffs suffered a 'related loss'; and (2) whether defendant has”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.