Champion v. Black & Decker (U.S.) Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that after Glenn the court “must take a new approach” to evaluating conflicted plan administrator’s decisions
• addressing the impact of Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Glenn,-U.S.-, 128 S.Ct. 2343, 171 L.Ed.2d 299 (2008), on our standard of review when a conflict of interest exists
• reiterating the “familiar standard” that “a discretionary determination will be upheld if reasonable”
• finding no abuse of discretion where the Plan cured any initial procedural irregularities
• “[C]ourts are to apply [] the abuse-of-discretion standard for reviewing discretionary determinations by [an] administrator” and, “[u]nder that familiar standard, a discretionary determination will be upheld if reasonable”
• abandoning sliding scale approach, after Glenn

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).