Hebra A. Berry v. Ciba-Geigy Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• finding that plan trustees had no duty to secure evidence supporting a claim for disability benefits where they possessed reliable evidence that claimant was not disabled
• observing that, under trust law, “proceedings to determine rights under employee benefit plans are equitable in character and thus a matter for a judge, not a jury”
• observing that, under trust law, “proceedings to determine rights under employee benefit plans are equitable in character and thus a matter for a judge, not a jury”
• noting that it was \not incumbent on [the administrator] as a matter of law to secure evidence\ in support of a claim of disability when it possessed reliable evidence that the claimant was not disabled
• noting congressional “silence” on the availability of a jury in ERISA cases and opining that such silence returns the question to the common law of trusts, where “no jury trial obtains”
• stating that \remand should be used sparingly\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).