Charles A. McKinsey v. Sentry Insurance, a Mutual Company

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• explaining that, if “personnel other than the plan administrator routinely assume responsibility for answering requests from plan participants and beneficiaries,” their actions “may be imputed to the plan administrator
• “[W]e agree with the district court that Sentry was not the plan administrator and, therefore, cannot be held liable under § 1132(c).”
• “[W]e agree with the district court that Sentry was not the plan administrator and, therefore, cannot be held liable under § 1132(c).”
• \The plan permits a sales representative to withdraw the vested portion of her/his allocations at any time during the course of her/his employment; it does not provide for the systematic deferral of payment.\
• If in practice, company personnel other than the plan administrator routinely assume responsibility for answering requests from plan participants and beneficiaries . . . the actions of the other employees may be imputed to the plan administrator.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).