firestone-deference

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-795 Jay C. Richmond v. Life Insurance Company of North America Eighth Circuit 2023-02-22 Denied Response Waived administrative-discretion circuit-split contra-proferentem employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa erisa-benefits firestone-deference full-and-fair-review judicial-review plan-interpretation Whether the court of appeals applied the wrong standard of judicial review under Firestone-Tire-and-Rubber-Co-v-Bruch
18-1498 UnitedHealth Group Inc., et al. v. Louis J. Peterson, on Behalf of Patients E, I, K, L, N, P, Q, and R, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-05-31 Dismissed administrative-discretion circuit-split deferential-judicial-review erisa-plan-administration erisa-plan-interpretation firestone-deference firestone-standard firestone-standard-of-review judicial-review plan-construction plan-interpretation plan-silence remedial-actions standard-of-review Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding that under the deferential Firestone standard of review, an administrator's determination that the plan au…