Manginaro v. Welfare Fund of Local 771, IATSE

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• holding that a denial of benefits was arbitrary and capricious where the documentation relied upon by a plan administrator did not provide substantial evidence for the administrator’s “broad conclusions”
• recognizing that while a statutory limitations period “may be shortened by the Plan, such a limitation will not be enforced unless it was properly disclosed to plaintiffs via the [summary plan description]”
• permitting plaintiff to prevail upon a showing of either detrimental reliance upon, or possible prejudice flowing from, a faulty summary plan document
• rejecting plaintiffs’ contention that plan trustees could be “held personally liable if the Fund’s assets prove insufficient to satisfy its liability”
• reviewing, at the summary judgment stage of the case, whether “suitable disclosure to the parties affected by” a summary plan description shortening the statute of limitations period had been made
• dismissing claims against plan trustees in their individual capacities, relying on Leonelli

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).