At its root, a case heard Friday at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta is about a simple, everyday turn of legal events: A woman is injured in a car wreck, sues the driver who hit her, then receives a settlement from the driver’s insurer.
But Friday’s case involves related litigation brought under the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), which is anything but simple, and a judge’s finding that actions by the woman’s lawyer “reek of bad faith.”
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