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Employee Benefits Law—Drunk Driving Fatality Determined Not Accidental Under ERISA-Governed Insurance Plan—Stamp v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 531 F.3d 84 (1st Cir. 2008)

Federal common law governs claims arising out of employee benefit plans covered by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).  The Court of Appeals for the First Circuit created an approach for interpreting the ambiguous word “accident” in...