Culp, Inc. v. Cain

How courts have described this case

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• applying de novo review to the benefits decision because although the plan administrator had discretionary authority to interpret the plan, the plan administrator made no determination about the meaning of the plan provision at issue
• “The case at bar differs from Knudson in one crucial respect: whereas the settlement in Knudson was never in the possession of the defendant, the settlement in Cain’s case was paid directly to Cain or her lawyers (on her behalf).”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).