Foster v. PPG Industries, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a plan administrator operating under an inherent conflict of interest had not abused its discretion
• noting that abuse of discretion and arbitrary and capricious standard are interchangeable in ERISA context
• “The circumstances do not suggest a higher likelihood that the inherent conflict affected the benefits decision.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “The circumstances do not suggest a higher likelihood that the inherent conflict affected the benefits decision.” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “the Plan Administrator’s decision was.consistent with its fiduciary obligation to safeguard Plan assets for the benefit of all participants, not just Foster”
• plan administrator did not violate ERISA where electronic withdrawals, though fraudulent, were made in accordance with plan procedures

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).