Surcharge and Life Insurance Plans: Plugging the Dike against Rising Tide of Employer Fiduciary Liability after Amara. Until the United States Supreme Court decided CIGNA Corp. v. Amara, in 2011, jurists had uniformly interpreted the Court’s earlier guidance under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) as prohibiting, with only minor exceptions, virtually any form of monetary relief for breach of fiduciary duty under the “catch-all” section of ERISA’s civil remedies provisions. That section authorizes “appropriate equitable relief.”
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