Panel:  ERISA Plan Is Bound To Arbitration Agreement Under Direct Benefits Estoppel

Mealey's (July 20, 2022, 10:44 AM EDT) -- HONOLULU — Affirming an order in favor of a claims administrator, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on July 18 issued an unpublished memorandum disposition ruling in part that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act plan at issue “is equitably bound by” an “agreement to arbitrate under the principle of direct benefits estoppel” under Arizona law....