Bova v. American Cyanamid Co.

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• holding plaintiff’s failure to address his written request to the plan administrator personally was not a defense to his § 1132(c) claim because “the plan summary instructed] employees to direct inquiries to their personnel or employee benefits departments”
• collecting cases; plan participant may recover benefits owed in denial of benefits claim under § 1132 but cannot recover extra-contractual compensatory and punitive damages
• holding plaintiff's failure to address his written request to the plan administrator personally was not a defense to his § 1132(c) claim because “the plan summary instruct[ed] employees to direct inquiries to their personnel or employee benefits departments”
• good faith failure to provide information does not excuse failure
• aggregate award of $10,000, for approximately 3-year period

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).