Legal Opinion
Eileen M. Huss v. IBM Medical and D
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 13, 2011No. 10-1061, 10-2749PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
Eileen Huss, who recently retired from International Business Machines Corporation (“IBM”), sought to enroll her dependent adult child, Joseph Huss, in the IBM Medical and Dental Plan (the “Plan”). The Plan’s administrator, R.A. Barnes, found Joseph ineligible under the Plan’s governing documents and denied his enrollment. Huss sued Barnes and the Plan (the “Defendants”) under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq. The district court found that Barnes’s decision was arbitrary, capricious, and unreasonable. It granted Huss’s…
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