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This month’s Friday Five explores decisions from around the country discussing the concept of reasonableness in various forms. One court rejected the parties’ proffered definitions of the term “working” and instead determined that a dictionary definition was reasonable. Two cases reflect courts...

Day One, Wednesday, April 9 11:30am – 12:30pm: All of the Above Energy Options -Pipelines, Power Plants, and Solar Arrays – Development and Permitting in Pennsylvania Pamela S. Goodwin, Esq. 4:00pm – 5:00pm: Enforcement of Environmental Crimes from the Prosecution and Defense Perspective Justin C...

Saul Ewing LLP is pleased to announce that Amy Kline and Caitlin Strauss have been honored in the 2025 JD Supra Readers' Choice Awards for their exemplary authorship of The Friday Five. This prestigious award recognizes the top authors and firms for exceptional thought leadership over the past year...

Pamela Goodwin will be a panelist at the ABA's 54th Spring Conference on Environmental Law on March 28, 2025, in Philadelphia. The topic that Pamela and her co-panelists will be discussing is " Cooperative Federalism or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bureaucracy —Water Regulation...

The Trump administration has declared March 12, 2025, as “the greatest and most consequential day of deregulation in the history of the United States.” United States Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, Lee Zeldin, issued various press releases (linked on our Environmental Executive...

This month’s Friday Five addresses cases covering ERISA preemption, the viability of a claim for benefits where the claimant alleges to have not received notice of a prior claim denial, an affirmance by the Circuit Court of a denial of benefits, and District Court reviews of decisions denying...

On February 25, 2025, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) issued an interim final rule [1] rescinding its regulations under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The CEQ’s action, in response to President Trump’s Unleashing American Energy Executive Order, [2] comes fifty-six years...

When Life Happens During an Appeal – How Appellate Attorneys Can Take Care of Themselves and Their Mental Health Speakers: Katie Barrett Wiik, Saul Ewing LLP Joan M. Bibelhausen Erica A. Holzer

This month’s Friday Five covers an appellate ruling on a complicated case raising both state and federal claims, an instance of procedural improprieties in the administrative review process informing the court’s substantive benefits decision, an equitable ERISA claim for an administrator’s payment...

This month’s Friday Five explores recent decisions including the standard of review for ERISA benefit denials, whether structural conflict entitles a claimant to conflict-of-interest discovery, whether a “relative value units” analysis warrants equitable tolling, whether the administrative record...

This month’s Friday Five explores recent decisions including the impact of a COVID furlough on eligibility for LTD benefits, what constitutes a breach of an employer’s fiduciary duty, what defines total proof of disability or is viewed as a severe procedural violation, and the appropriate weight...

In October 2024, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) published a proposed rule (the “Proposed Rule”) that would amend its site remediation rules to codify and implement provisions of the legislation known as SRRA 2.0, which became effective on August 23, 2019. Most notably...

Minneapolis Litigation Partner and Appellate Group Co-Chair Katie Barrett Wiik served as a Co-Editor of the 2024 edition of the Eighth Circuit Practice Manual, published by Minnesota CLE. This publication is designed to be a primary resource for attorneys representing clients in its namesake...

This month’s Friday Five discusses cases involving ERISA preemption, the methodology for calculating qualified joint and survivor annuity benefits, a dispute over an attempt to supplement the record before the Court, a factual dispute precluding summary judgment on a bad faith claim, and the payroll...

This month’s Friday Five covers cases relating to Long-COVID, a class action RICO suit, the physical illness exclusion to accidental death and dismemberment claims, consideration due to an Administrative Law Judge’s disability determination, and self-reported claims of fatigue. The Saul Ewing ERISA...

This month’s Friday Five discusses cases addressing the effect of continuing to receive benefits during the period of alleged disability, reliance on an employer’s records in making a disability determination, the admissibility of expert and lay testimony from a physician in a trial over LTD...

Katie Barrett Wiik and Doug Anderson will be co-presenting at a CLE seminar entitled “Appellate Practice for the Non-Specialist” through Minnesota CLE on August 29, 2024. The focus will be on state court (Minnesota) appeals. Their presentation is on “Overview of Appeals” and will cover the nuts and...