| 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 |
| 22-417 |
Gary Metzgar, et al. v. U.A. Plumbers and Steamfitters Local No. 22 Pension Fund, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-11-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
accrued-benefits anti-cutback-rule early-retirement employee-retirement-income-security-act erisa pension-benefits pension-plan plan-interpretation postretirement-employment retirement-plan |
Whether ERISA's anti-cutback rule prohibits plan trustees from eliminating participants' early retirement benefits through a reinterpretation of the p… |
| 21-602 |
Michigan Education Association Family Retired Staff Association, et al. v. Michigan Education Association, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
benefit-vesting civil-rights cnh-industrial-v-reese contract-ambiguity contract-interpretation employee-benefits erisa extrinsic-evidence plan-interpretation retiree-medical-plan vesting |
Whether a retiree medical plan that is ambiguous on its face may be shown by extrinsic evidence to provide for vesting of post-retirement benefits |
| 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 |
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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… |