Joseph D. Griggs v. E. I. Dupont De Nemours & Company, Joseph D. Griggs v. E. I. Dupont De Nemours & Company

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• accepting that plan administrator acted in fiduciary capacity by communicating with participant about pension benefits
• noting that entity acts as \a fiduciary for purposes of ERISA when it is engaged in the administration or management of its pension plan\
• holding a plan administrator acted in fiduciary capacity by communicating with participant about pension benefits
• collecting cases from the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, and Eleventh - 16 - circuits
• describing “limited fiduciary duty” to “communicate to the beneficiary material facts affecting the interest of the beneficiary which [the fiduciary] knows the beneficiary does not know and which the beneficiary needs to know for his protection”
• \[A]n ERISA fiduciary that knows or should know that a behefi-ciary labors under a material misunderstanding of plan benefits that will inure to his detriment cannot remain silent... .\

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