Smith v. Rochester Telephone Business Marketing Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• “Congress intended ERISA ‘to occupy fully the field of employee benefit plans and to establish it “as exclusively a federal concern” ’ ”
• in ERISA action, concluding that employee benefits committee did not “err[] in deciding that commissions are not bonuses”
• plaintiffs failure to appeal benefits calculation did not bar claim for nine years’ retroactive application of higher benefit level, where no notice of benefits eligibility determination had been given
• “The consistency of prior interpretations of a plan provision is a factor that the courts may consider in determining whether a given interpretation is arbitrary and capricious.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).