Legal Opinion
Hebra A. Berry v. Ciba-Geigy Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided May 13, 1985No. 84-1473PublishedCited by 202 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILKINSON, Circuit Judge:
Appellant Ciba-Geigy Corporation was ordered by the district court to restore appellee Hebra A. Berry to its long-term disability rolls and pay back benefits after a jury found the company’s behavior in terminating his benefits to be “arbitrary or capricious or in bad faith.” Because the arbitrariness of the trustee’s decision is not properly a jury question and because the trial court improperly admitted evidence not before the plan administrator, we reverse and remand for reconsideration under the narrow standard recently delineated by this court in LeFebre v.…
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