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A Wrap Plan Can Be Helpful for Your Health & Welfare Benefits
BenefitsNotes by Leonard, Street and Deinard Link to more items from this source
Nov. 30, 2012

"A recent district court decision in Ohio considered ... [an] AD&D plan booklet [that] did not grant discretion to the plan administrator or the insurance carrier to decide claims. However, the employer had adopted a wrap document that did contain such discretion. In addition, the summary plan description noted that the employer had discretion to decide claims. The court concluded that the wrap document and the plan booklet together constituted the plan document so the grant of discretion applied to the AD&D claim denial."  MORE >>

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