Fitch v. Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A.

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• concluding that plaintiff's breach-of-fiduciary-duty claim was precluded by a duplicative denial-of-benefits claim
• interpreting Varity “to mean that plaintiffs may not seek the same relief under 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a)(3) as they are seeking under 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a)(1)(B)”
• “If the mistake had been in the [plan adminstrator]’s favor, one cannot seriously imagine that the plaintiffs would have accepted the error as being a term of the plan.”

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