Luis E. Rodriguez-Abreu v. The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an employer’s failure to timely provide written materials to plan participants upon written request did not necessarily give rise to statutory penalties
• holding that because there was no express delegation of fiduciary duty in plan documents to person or entity who made termination of benefits decision, district court correctly applied de novo standard of review
• holding that if a benefits plan clearly grants discretionary authority to the administrator to make coverage decisions, the decisions will be accorded the deferential arbitrary and capricious standard of review
• stating that even though the district court need not find bad faith or prejudice to impose penalties, it may give dispositive weight to these factors
• noting that there must be \no genuine issue as to the inferences which might reasonably be drawn from the language\
• “To be valid, a waiver of ERISA benefits must be an intentional relinquishment or abandonment of a known right or privilege.”

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