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26Nov

Best Practices in Administering Benefit Claims #7 – Understanding Attorney-Client Privilege in the Benefits Claims Process

When a plan administrator is attending to a benefit claim and thinks it is time to call in an attorney, are those discussions privileged and protected from disclosure to claimants? In this week’s blog, we take a look at some of those communications...
By: Proskauer - Employee Benefits & Executive
Source Url: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/best-practices-in-administering-benefit-81236/

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