George Wolfe v. J.C. Penney Company, 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 failure to advise claimant of requirements to resolve the benefit plan claim necessitated remand to the fiduciary for a new claim determination
• stating that “a fiduciary (or its agent) ought to specify with some detail what type of information would help to resolve these questions, and how the applicant should present such information”
• remanding to the administrator for new hearing where initial denial of benefits was not procedurally accurate
• “a fiduciary (or its agent) ought to specify with some detail what information would help resolve these questions.”
• plaintiff not entitled to a substantive remedy based on defendant's procedural ERISA violation
• plaintiff not entitled to a substantive remedy based on defendant’s procedural ERISA violation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).