Pakovich v. Broadspire Services, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• ordering district court to remand to plan administrator, because plan administrator had “not issued a decision on a claim for benefits”
• discussing district court’s review of ERISA denial of benefits pursuant to Rule 52
• adopting rule that “when the plan administrator has not issued a decision on a claim for benefits that is now before the courts, the matter must be sent back to the plan administrator to address the issue in the first instance”
• “When the plan administrator has not issued a decision on a claim for benefits that is now before the courts, the matter must be sent back to the plan administrator to address the issue in the first instance.”
• “[J]udicial estoppel provides that when a party prevails on one legal or factual ground in a lawsuit, that party cannot later repudiate that ground in subsequent litiga- tion based on the underlying facts.” (quotation omitted, emphasis in Pakovich)

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