insurance-policy
9 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-741 | Levi Goldfarb, et al. v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-01-14 | Denied | Response Waived | accidental-death circuit-split contract-interpretation erisa insurance-policy mountain-climbing | I. The insured under a policy insuring against accidental death, which was subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA") an… |
| 24-5724 | Victor Guyton, II v. Golden Donuts, LLC | Georgia | 2024-10-08 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-law equal-protection insurance-policy sovereign-immunity state-rights | Does it give a state the right to violate its constitution to violate the U.S. constitution in efforts to waive sovereign immunity? How can third part… |
| 21-1376 | Mary Alexandre v. National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, PA | First Circuit | 2022-04-25 | Denied | accidental-death civil-procedure employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa insurance insurance-policy presumption state-of-mind suicide suicide-presumption trial-procedure | I. A policy insuring against accidental death, covered by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, excludes coverage for the insured's sui… | |
| 21-554 | Amber Boyer v. Schneider Electric Holdings, Inc., et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-10-15 | Denied | Response Waived | accidental-death benefits-due crime-exclusion erisa insurance-policy plan-administrator substantial-evidence | 1. Whether the ERISA Plan Administrator's interpretation of "crime" to include speeding and improper passing was unreasonable when denying coverage un… |
| 21-5208 | Samuel W. Wani v. George Fox University, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-of-discretion causation discovery discovery-violation expert-testimony fair-trial insurance-policy medical-malpractice medical-records standard-of-care | 1) Wani's failure to provide expert testimony regarding the standard of care and causation. I did provide expert testimony regarding the standard of c… |
| 20-379 | Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s London v. Brighton Collectibles, LLC | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | abstention civil-damages comity due-process federalism insurance-policy invasion-of-privacy ninth-circuit privacy-rights song-beverly-act song-beverly-credit-card-act | This Court's supervisory power is called upon as to: 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit violated federalism, abstention, and comity by creating new law whe… | |
| 19-884 | Rick V. Caldwell, et ux. v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America | Tenth Circuit | 2020-01-16 | Denied | beneficiary-rights contra-proferentem discretionary-provision erisa fiduciary-duty insurance-policy judicial-deference trust-law | I. UNUM (and other insurers) asserts ERISA insurers do not have a legal duty to draft unambiguous plans and policies. UNUM then argues that is has dis… | |
| 18-7709 | John B. Laschkewitsch, as Administrator for the Estate of Ben Laschkewitsch v. Lincoln Life and Annuity Distributors, Inc., dba Lincoln Financial Group | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law appeals attorneys-fees breach-of-contract civil-rights contract costs diagnostic-disclosure due-process equal-protection insurance insurance-policy policy-contestability producer-agreement standing statutory-interpretation | Whether contestability precedent from this Court, see Hurni, Enelow, Stewart, Pickering, Wallerstein and Button; the N.C. Supreme Court, see American … |
| 18-5335 | Min Kwon v. Erie Insurance | Virginia | 2018-07-25 | Denied | IFP | bona-fides caption civil-procedure contract-dispute contract-law contractual-terms coverage-dispute due-process erie-insurance exhibit insurance-policy parties policy-interpretation statutory-interpretation table-of-contents | Which policy did Kwon contract original policy? Kwon filed policy exhibit I page 002089-002 102 that Kwon contracted. Erie filed policy exhibit A pa… |