Joseph J. Peterson v. Continental Casualty Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a district court may not award pre-litigation costs
• explaining that the text and legislative history of ERISA indicate that once a court of law has assumed jurisdiction, all costs incurred may be shifted by a court to one party, including administrative proceedings related to a court order
• holding “pre-litigation fees and costs are [not] authorized by ERISA”
• comparing the statutory language of Title VII as interpreted by the Supreme Court in N.Y. Gaslight Club, and noting that the ERISA attorney’s fee statutory provision does not contain the word “or proceedings”
• “[A]bsent a determination by the plan administrator, federal courts are without jurisdiction to adjudicate whether an employee is eligible for benefits under an ERISA plan.”
• “ERISA empowers federal courts to review the [discretionary] decisions of plan administrators, but provides no authority for a court tó render a de novo determination of an employee’s eligibility for benefits.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).