Linda Brown v. Aventis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Helen Hefner, Plan Administrator

How courts have described this case

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• reviewing the amount of the district court’s award of damages under ERISA for an abuse of discretion
• affirming the award of statutory penalties for failure to provide plan documents in a timely manner
• identifying the purpose of the penalty to be to prevent claimants from having to invest time, effort, and money in hiring an attorney to obtain information to which they are legally entitled
• a defendant’s good faith does not preclude the award of a statutory penalty, although it is relevant
• absence of actual injury to the plaintiff does not preclude the award of a statutory penalty, but the absence of actual injury is relevant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).