Fiduciary Exception To Attorney-Client Privilege Applies, Magistrate Says

MINNEAPOLIS - A disability insurer cannot assert that the attorney-client privilege applied to a number of withheld documents because the communications arising out of a claimant's request for plan documents were a matter of plan administration and fall under the fiduciary exception, a Minnesota federal magistrate judge said March 15 (Michael Christoff v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America, No. 17-3512, D. Minn., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 43535).
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