Legal Opinion
Bruch v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided August 31, 1987No. 86-1448PublishedCited by 76 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*136OPINION OF THE COURT
BECKER, Circuit Judge.
Three classes of former salaried employees of the Plastics Division of defendant Firestone Tire & Rubber Co (“Firestone”) allege that the administrator of Firestone’s pension and welfare plans improperly denied them various benefits allegedly due under those plans. The “rub” is that the plan administrator is Firestone itself— which is also the sole source of funding for the plan at issue in Count I. To evaluate plaintiffs’ claims we must address important questions about the scope of judicial review of decisions by pension plan administrators on plan…
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