Andrew Ruttenberg v. United States Life Insurance Company in the City of New York, a Subsidiary of American General Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• applying normal principals of contract interpretation to an ERISA-related insurance policy
• “Mr. Ruttenberg seeks to enforce benefits under the policy; he therefore bears the burden of proving his entitlement to contract benefits.”
• under de novo review, a party “seek[ing] to enforce benefits under the policy . . . bears the burden of proving his entitlement to contract benefits”
• \[The plaintiff] bears the burden of proving his entitlement to contract benefits [under ERISA].\
• “[A]n ERISA ‘beneficiary’ may be a person designated to receive benefits under the terms of the plan itself; the definition is not limited to individuals designated by a ‘participant’ to receive benefits.”
• “ERISA plaintiffs must prove that their insurance contract entitles them to benefits”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).