Arthur J. Moats v. The United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• upholding UMWA Trustees’ denial of benefits even though employee injured on premises of em-, ployer
• when interpreting its own plan, administrator is not bound by federal standards or guidelines on disability, unless specifically incorporated
• plan administrator’s interpretation of a plan provision “should be upheld even if the court disagrees with it, so long as the interpretation is rationally related to a valid plan purpose and not contrary to the plain language of the plan.”
• accepting the Trustees’ interpretation of the Harless case
• Q & As supported trustees’ decision

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).