Legal Opinion
Benito T. Perez, Jr. v. Aetna Life Insurance Company
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided September 23, 1996No. 95-1111PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOGGS, Circuit Judge.
Benito T. Perez, Jr. appeals from the district court’s grant of summary judgment to the Aetna Life Insurance Company (Aetna), on his claim under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). We resolve a split of authority among the district courts in the Sixth Circuit by joining those circuits holding that a de novo standard of review applies to both factual determinations and plan interpretation determinations made by an ERISA plan administrator, unless the plan clearly gives a particular kind of discretion to the administrator. Applying this standard of review,…
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