Legal Opinion
Recupero v. New England Telephone & Telegraph Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 7, 1997No. 96-2265PublishedCited by 124 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KEETON, District Judge.
This appeal presents issues regarding the scope of jurisdiction of federal courts over claims for benefits under an employee benefits plan that is subject to regulation under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). In particular, we must decide what standards apply to judicial review of the decisions of the out-of-court decisionmakers in this case.
Without doubt, in the circumstances of this case, as the parties agree, the district court had jurisdiction for judicial review of the out-of-court decisions, under 29 U.S.C. §§ 1132(a)(1)(B) and 1132(c), for at…
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