Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Marshall Centenary

Today is the centenary of Thurgood Marshall’s birth, discussed in Balkinization by Mary Dudziak, author of a new Marshall biography, Exporting American Dreams: Thurgood Marshall’s African Journey.

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

9th Cir: ERISA Administrator Must Provide Investigative Notes to Participant

A 9th Circuit panel has held that an ERISA administrator must provide a participant with notes of its claims investigators, if the participant so requests:
[Plan participant] Sgro also claims that he asked defendants for a “complete copy of [his] claim file” and that defendants didn’t fully comply with the request. In particular, Sgro alleges that […]