Wegner v. Standard Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “overtime” in an ERISA plan could only reasonably be read in a manner consistent with the Fair Labor Standards Act
• “We review the district court’s decision to award attorneys’ fees only for an abuse of discretion.”
• “We review the district court’s decision to award attorneys’ fees only for an abuse of discretion.”
• ERISA § 502(g), applicable both to trials and appeals, provides that “the court in its discretion may allow a reasonable attorney’s fee and costs ... to either party.”
• “Only if the plan terms remain ambiguous after applying ordinary principles of contract interpretation are we compelled to apply the rule of contra proferentum and construe the terms strictly in favor of the insured.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).