Liberty Life Assurance Co. v. Barbara Kennedy

How courts have described this case

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• applying de novo review when the plan administrator declined to exercise its discretionary authority to interpret benefit eligibility
• declining to “decide which document controls” where the terms of a life insurance plan and an SPD were “not irreconcilable”
• “Insurers who offer employee benefit plans under ERISA are free to allow policyholders to change beneficiaries through more than a single means and, so long as the policyholders are informed of the means and the plan administrator complies with its fiduciary obligations, ERISA is not implicated.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).