Cases — September 15th through 21st, 2019

ERISA

*Caldwell v. Unum Life Insurance (10th Cir., September 18, 2019) (affirming rejection of claim under ERISA that Unum had improperly denied accidental death benefits based on policy exclusion for losses resulting from an attempt to commit a crime”)

Wages

Kenney v. Helix TCS, Inc. (10th Cir., September 20, 2019) (affirming denial of Helix’s motion to dismiss Kenney’s FLSA failure-to-pay-overtime claim: Kenney’s employment activities were not in violation of the Controlled Substances Act and were thus not outside FLSA protections)

*Cases marked with an asterisk are not binding precedent, except under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, and collateral estoppel.