Paul F. McElroy v. Smithkline Beecham Health & Welfare Benefits Trust Plan for U.S. Employees Smithkline Beecham Unum Provident Corporation

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• holding that the following text conferred discretion: The administrator “re- serves the absolute right to interpret” plan provisions and “to make determinations of facts and eligibility for benefits, and to decide any dispute that may arise.”
• “Because the language of the .Plan is equivocal, the plan administrator was authorized to interpret it, and we must defer to this interpretation unless it is arbitrary or capricious.”
• “Clearly, the ‘documents and instruments governing the plan’ do not necessarily include all relevant documents and, in particular, do not necessarily include the plaintiff’s claim file.”

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