Richard Baker v. Big Star Division of the Grand Union Company, Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, Great-West Life Assurance Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a third-party plan administrator was not a fiduciary where the employer reserved the right to review the denial of claims
• “a plan ad, ministrator who merely performs claims processing, investigatory, and record keeping duties is not a fiduciary” (quotation omitted)
• “[A] plan administrator who merely performs claims processing, investigatory, and record keeping duties is not a fiduciary”
• “ERISA does not regulate the duties of non-fiduciary plan administrators. As such, non-fiduciaries cannot be held liable under ERISA.”
• claims processor not a fiduciary when it did not insure benefits and employer retained right to review denial of claims

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).