Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Alabama v. Brown

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Ala. v. Brown, 498 U.S. 1040 (1991)

Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Decided: January 7, 1991
Docket: No. 90-494
Citations: 498 U.S. 1040111 S. Ct. 712112 L. Ed. 2d 70159 U.S.L.W. 346213 Employee Benefits Cas. (BNA) 12881991 U.S. LEXIS 115

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Opinion of the Court

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C. A. 11th Cir. Motion of American Council of Life Insurance et al. for leave to file a brief as amici curiae granted. Certiorari denied.

How later courts describe this case

Explanatory parentheticals written by citing courts — 6 in all; the most informative distinct ones are shown.

(finding conflict of interest where Blue Cross, acting as administrator of an ERISA Plan, provided insurance coverage to the employer; paid all claims out of its own assets and suffered the losses; and made all eligibility determinations)

Hilliard v. BellSouth Med. Assistance Plan, 918 F. Supp. 1016 (S.D. Miss. 1995)
(less deference where claims decision made by insurer paying claims out of own assets)

Klebe v. Mitre Group Health Care Plan, 894 F. Supp. 898 (D. Maryland 1995)
("[i]t is fundamental that the fiduciary’s interpretation first must be 'wrong' from the perspective of de novo review before a reviewing court is concerned with the self-interest of the fiduciary.")

Goodman v. S & a RESTAURANT CORP., 821 F. Supp. 1139 (S.D. Miss. 1993)
("The fiduciary duties section [of ERISA] [ ] requires adherence to the written plan documents unless their provisions conflict with statutory duties.... [cites omitted] One conflict might be identified between the contractual provision [at issue] [ ] and the standard of loyalty itself.")

Davidowitz v. Delta Dental Plan of Cal., Inc., 946 F.2d 1476 (9th Cir. 1991)
(“when sentence A has expired but has been used to augment sentence B, the prisoner is “in custody” only on sentence B,” but the prisoner “may contend that that custody violates the Constitution if it was augmented because of an invalid sentence A”)

Clay v. Bronnenberg, 950 F.2d 486 (7th Cir. 1991)

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DiCioccio v. Duquesne Light Company911 F. Supp. 880 (W.D. Pa. 1995)
Medford v. Metropolitan Life Insurance244 F. Supp. 2d 1120 (D. Nev. 2003)

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