Virginia Iron, Coal & Coke Co. v. Dye

How courts have described this case

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• reading Silva to say that if the court concluded that plaintiff was not entitled to relief under his claim for benefits due, relief would still be available under the fiduciary duty claim
• stating insurer maintained a triple-safeguard system for enrollment, including “sending a monthly spreadsheet with the list of employees approved and for which -10- insurance plan” to employer, and “carbon copying [employer] on approval letters to participants”
• insurer’s exercise of discretion to determine whether insured qualified for coverage was a fiduciary rather than administrative function

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).