Gary A. Davolt v. The Executive Committee of O'Reilly Automotive, as Trustee and Plan Administrator of the O'Reilly Automotive Employee Health Plan

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• recognizing that no presumption of a conflict of interest arises \simply because the plan administrator is also the self-insured provider of the benefits\
• holding the district court erred by finding an automatic conflict of interest merely because insurer and administrator were the same
• treating Woo’s sliding scale approach as an “intermediate” standard of review between abuse of discretion and de novo but declining to decide the proper standard “because any standard of review . . . will yield the same result”
• “Although the fact that the plan administrator is also the insurer may give rise to a conflict of interest, the district court erred when it assumed an automatic conflict of interest existed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).