2020 is shaping up to be a banner year for benefits law, with three ERISA cases already on the US Supreme Court's docket and a number of other high-profile lawsuits at the circuit court level that could attract the justices' attention.
While waiting on the high court's ERISA decisions, lawyers are watching litigation trends develop in the lower courts and waiting to see if the high court picks up another two ERISA cases.
McDermott's Richard J. Pearl contributes to a Law360 article that look at what 2020 may hold for benefits litigation.
Originally published on Law360, January 2020
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