Featured Jobs
|
DWC - The 401(k) Experts
|
|
Retirement Relationship Manager MAP Retirement
|
|
MAP Retirement
|
|
Regional Vice President, Sales MAP Retirement
|
|
MAP Retirement
|
|
Pattison Pension
|
|
Plan Administrator, Defined Benefit & Cash Balance The Pension Source
|
|
Pension Investors Corporation
|
|
Sentinel Group
|
|
Strategic Retirement Plan Consultant Retirement Plan Consultants
|
|
Defined Benefit Plan Consultant/Actuarial Analyst Sentinel Group
|
|
3(16) Retirement Plan & Customer Liaison Compass
|
|
BPAS
|
Free Newsletters
“BenefitsLink continues to be the most valuable resource we have at the firm.”
-- An attorney subscriber
|
|
|
Tenth Circuit Holds Nondeferential Standard of Review Applies Because Discretionary Authority Provision Was Not Disclosed
Thomson Reuters / EBIA 
Aug. 6, 2020 "Unless the plan document grants the decisionmaker discretionary authority to interpret and administer the plan and to make factual determinations, the less favorable de novo standard of review applies. And, as shown here, even if discretionary authority language appears in the formal plan document, deferential review may be lost if the discretionary authority provision is not disclosed in the SPD." [Lyn M. v. Premera Blue Cross, No. 18-4098 (10th Cir. Jul. 24, 2020)] MORE >> |
| Please click here to report this link if it is broken (for example, if you see a "404 File Not Found" error message after you click on the linked news item's title). |
| An important word about authorship: BenefitsLink® created this link to the news item, but we are not the news item's author (unless expressly shown above). |