Carolyn Herzberger v. Standard Insurance Company, Beverly A. Johnson v. Prudential Insurance Company of America

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• explaining that when plan documents “confer[] upon the administrator a power of discretionary judgment,” the court can set aside the administrator’s determination “only if it was ‘arbitrary and capricious,’ that is, unreasonable, and not merely incorrect … .”
• noting the tension between Perez and other circuit decisions but leaving open the possibility that all of the decisions could be reconciled
• statement that benefits will be paid if the administrator determines benefits are due does not confer discretion
• no “magic words” needed to trigger deferential judicial review of benefit determinations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).