Legal Opinion
Celestine Pierre and the Estate of James Nolan Pierre, Jr. v. Connecticut General Life Insurance Company/life Insurance Company of North America
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 18, 1991No. 89-3861PublishedCited by 156 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:
This case is before us for a second time. It requires us to determine the appropriate standard for review of factual determinations made by plan administrators under ERISA. The plaintiff brought suit for the denial of accidental death benefits under her husband’s ERISA plan. In the first round, the district court applied the then proper standard of arbitrary and capricious review to the decisions of the ERISA plan administrator. Accordingly, it allowed the administrator to consider “hearsay” evidence, and concluded that the administrator’s denial of the…
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