Allen Tegtmeier v. Midwest Operating Engineers Pension Trust Fund

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• explaining that “Social Security decisions, if available, are instructive, [but] these determinations are not dispositive”
• noting that Social Security decisions “are instructive” but not “dispositive” and that a plan’s decision “not to reopen the claims process is completely proper, given [the plan’s] concern for finality of decisions”
• noting that Social Security decisions “are instructive” but not “dispositive” and that a plan’s deci- sion “not to reopen the claims process is completely proper, given [the plan’s] concern for finality of deci- sions”
• “Larding the summary with minutiae would defeat that document’s function: to provide a capsule guide in simple language for employees.”
• applying deadlines is proper given the plan’s need “for finality of decisions”
• “While Social Security decisions, if available, are instructive, these determinations are not dis-positive .... ” (emphasis added)

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