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Eighth Circuit: Ordinary Summary Judgment Procedures Apply to Review of ERISA Benefit Claims
Roberts Disability Law Link to more items from this source
Dec. 1, 2021

"The Eighth Circuit ... held that ordinary summary-judgment procedures under FRCP 56 apply in ERISA benefit cases where the administrator lacked discretionary authority. Parties in an ERISA case that want the district court to exercise its factfinding function under FRCP 39(b) and 52(a)(1) to decide the case on the administrative record should request that the district court do that." [Avenoso v. Reliance Standard Life Ins. Co., No. 21-1772 (8th Cir. Nov. 30, 2021)]  MORE >>

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