David D. Duggins v. Fluor Daniel, Inc., Stacey Lynn Carpenter Michael Lee Newsom Patty Lynn Puckett Charles Steven Newsom, Third Party Defendants

BENAVIDES, Circuit Judge:

Appellant David D. Duggins (“Duggins”) appeals the district court’s ruling that decedent C. Fred Newsom (“Newsom”) designated Duggins the beneficiary of his ERISA plan in Duggins’s capacity as executor of Newsom’s estate, rather than in Duggins’s individual capacity. The parties agree as to all the pertinent facts. New-som had originally designated his daugh ter, Stacey Lynn Carpenter (“Carpenter”), with whom he had had a difficult relationship, as beneficiary, but in 1993, Newsom drew a line through her name and substituted Duggins as his beneficiary. On the plan…