An ERISA plan administrator with discretionary power to determine eligibility for benefits is entitled to a high degree of deference from the courts, a federal judge in the Western District of Pennsylvania wrote in rejecting a former Verizon worker’s claim that she is entitled to a voluntary termination offer.
U.S. District Chief Judge Gary Lancaster of the Western District of Pennsylvania said the court’s standard of review of the plan administrators’ decisions is “narrow” in granting summary judgment to Verizon in an ERISA case that took into account the “intended design” of the company’s benefit plan.
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