Byron Ingram v. Martin Marietta Long Term Disability Income Plan for Salaried Employees of Transferred Ge Operations, an Erisa Plan

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• holding that provisions stating that a carrier would make all decisions on'claims and that carrier will conduct a “full and fair review” of claim denials were insufficient to' confer discretion on the carrier
• remanding for a bench trial, \if confined entirely to the existing record[] would be little more than a formality\
• examining the language of an ERISA plan first to determine whether its terms were unambiguous
• “An allocation of decision-making authority to [the administrator] is not, without more, a grant of discretion- ary authority in making those decisions.”
• “If an insurance company seeking to 5 sell and administer an ERISA plan wants to have discretion in making claims decisions, it should 6 say so.”
• “If an insurance company seeking to 14 sell and administer an ERISA plan wants to have discretion in making claims decisions, it should 15 say so.”

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