Legal Opinion
Halo v. Yale Health Plan, Director of Benefits & Records Yale University
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided April 12, 2016No. 14-4055PublishedCited by 121 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KATZMANN, Chief Judge:
Under Sections 503 and 505 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1133, 1135, Congress empowered the Department of Labor to issue rules and regulations governing claims procedures for employee benefit plans. This case calls upon us to interpret an agency regulation in the context of the regulation’s purpose, as well as the purpose of the regulation’s authorizing statute, as we address some of the consequences that follow from a plan’s failure to comply with the Department’s claims-procedure regulation, 29 C.F.R. § 2560.503-1.
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