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- Title
ERISA REMEDIES, WELFARE BENEFITS, AND BAD FAITH: LOSING SIGHT OF THE CATHEDRAL.
- Authors
Stris, Peter K.
- Abstract
The article discusses available remedies in litigation against a welfare plan and its fiduciaries when a litigant has been injured by the wrongful handling of benefits claim under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) of 1974 in the U.S. It mentions that the law allows civil litigation to redress violations as stated in section 502 (a). It talks about potential distortions to substantial expansion of liability, which include a concern that providing excessive remedies will incent beneficiaries and participants to charge illegitimate or questionable claims, and that providing excessive remedies will incent plans to settle these claims.
- Subjects
UNITED States; EMPLOYEE Retirement Income Security Act of 1974; RETIREMENT income laws; TRUSTS &; trustees; LEGAL status of beneficiaries; PENSION laws; RETIREMENT planning
- Publication
Hofstra Labor & Employment Law Journal, 2009, Vol 26, Issue 2, p387
- ISSN
1189-3332
- Publication type
Article