Chereskin v. Turkoglu

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that \[t]he beneficiary of an ERISA plan may bring a civil action against a plan administrator\ to recover benefits under §§ 1132(a)(1)(B)
• “Nothing in the legislative history sug- gests that Congress intended that federal district courts would function as substitute plan administrators.”
• \Permitting a district court to examine evidence outside the administrative record would open the door to the anomalous conclusion that a plan administrator abused its discretion by failing to consider evidence not before i t . \
• use of the term “arbitrary and capricious” versus “abuse of discretion” is a “distinction without a difference”
• discussing scope of record in ERISA cases

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).