Split 7th Circ. OKs Forum Choice Clauses In ERISA Plans

By Braden Campbell (August 11, 2017, 5:40 PM EDT) -- A forum choice provision included in an Employee Retirement Income Security Act plan overrides the law's direction that suits "may be brought" in certain courts tied to the plan or the affected beneficiary, a split Seventh Circuit panel said Thursday, denying a request that a benefits suit be sent back to Pennsylvania federal court....

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