ERISA & Employee Pension Plans
Retirement Plans Committee of IBM v. Jander (U.S., January 14, 2020) (vacating judgment below and remanding for the 2nd Circuit to address arguments not addressed below regarding ERISA fiduciaries duty of prudence)
Worker’ Compensation ~ Occupational Safety and Disease
*Gutierrez v. Commissioner (10th Cir., January 13, 2020) (affirming decision below that Gutierrez was not disabled: substantial evidence supported original ALJ decision)
Morgan v. Baker Hughes Incorporated (10th Cir., January 15, 2020) (affirming district court instruction regarding Wyoming’s direct-negligence-liability rule: For a corporation to be found negligent in the wrongful death of a subsidiary’s employee, that corporation must exercise control over that part of the subsidiary’s operation resulting in the plaintiff’s injury)
* Cases marked with an asterisk are not binding precedent, except under the doctrines of law of the case, res judicata, and collateral estoppel.
