Troiano v. Aetna Life Insurance Company

LYNCH, Circuit Judge.

This lawsuit arises from a dispute between an ERISA disability plan administrator and a beneficiary over the amount by which the monthly disability payments made to the beneficiary should be offset by her other monthly income from Social Security. The administrator maintains that the disability payments must be offset by the gross (pre-tax) amount of Social Security income, while the beneficiary argues that the payments must be offset by the net (post-tax) amount of Social Security income. The district court found for the administrator, noting that its interpretation of…