The View from Proskauer on Developments in the World of Employee Benefits, Executive Compensation & ERISA Litigation
It’s Week #6, and we have turned the corner in our Top 10 Best Practices in Administering Benefit Claims. In case you missed any (or all) of the first five best practices, links to each of them appear below. This week we discuss how to distinguish an inquiry from a claim for benefits.
The claims…
This week we discuss the importance of establishing good claims procedures and the benefits of following those procedures.
A plan’s claims procedures should be spelled out clearly in both the plan document and the summary plan description (where the two documents are not one in the same). In addition to setting all of the applicable…
This week in our blog series on best practices in administering benefit claims, we discuss the importance of knowing and, importantly, understanding the laws governing benefit claim administration.
Section 503 of ERISA sets forth the general guidelines for a plan’s claims and appeal procedures. It requires that a plan provide adequate written notice of the…
Our blog series on best practices in administering benefit claims has thus far stressed the importance of knowing and reading the plan document and summary plan description. This week, we take a look at a plan term that has been the subject of frequent dispute in health and welfare benefits claim litigation—interpretation of plan provisions…
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