Jane Marie Hall v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• concluding rationale was not post-hoc when the denial letter “implicitly rejected” one of the appellant’s arguments
• observing courts may invoke substantial compliance doctrine in interpleader actions and when conducting de novo review
• in a different context, rejecting the doctrine in a change of beneficiary situation
• assuming substantial compliance doctrine applies post-Kennedy when deciding the case
• “[T]hat a court may decide as a matter of common law to excuse technical non-compliance with the terms of an ERISA plan does not mean that an administrator with discretion under an ERISA plan is forbidden to enforce strict compliance with plan requirements.”

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