Assaf v. Trinity Med. Ctr.

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• finding that an administrator’s failure to satisfy ERISA notice requirements was “neither significant nor outcome determinative” where the “procedural failures did not prevent [the claimant] from gaining information necessary to contest his denial of benefits”
• noting plaintiff provided no evidence supporting his allegation that defendant did not permit him to develop the administrative record and no evidence that could have influenced or did influence defendant’s decision to deny benefits
• principles of estoppel cannot be applied to vary terms of unambiguous plan

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