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• looking to the duties outlined in the plan documents to determine whether they confer discretionary authority or responsibility on the purported plan fiduciary
• Estopping a Plan Administrator from denying benefits to an individual who was not a participant, nor a beneficiary, would have the unmitigated effect of modifying the Plan's written terms — a result that is in clear conflict with the statute's requirements.
• “The discretionary authority or responsibility which is pivotal to the statutory definition of ‘fiduciary’ is allocated by the plan documents themselves.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).