Richard H. Heasley, Sr. And Doris G. Heasley v. Belden & Blake Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• looking to state common law contract rules when fashioning federal common law rules in an ERISA case
• adopting rule of contra proferentem in review of denial of insurance benefits under ERISA
• “[C]ourts have refused to rely exclusively on particular third-party classifications 12 where the plan has not explicitly referenced them. . . .”
• discretion can be express or implied in language of the Plan

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).