Arsenault v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 2 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1002 (§ 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1024 (§ 104 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1031 (§ 111 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1109 (§ 409 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1132 (§ 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1133 (§ 503 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 1135 (§ 505 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974)
Relies on Pilot Life Insurance v. Dedeaux · Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance v. Russell · Russell v. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance · Wesley v. Monsanto Co. · 593 F. Supp. 1136 - Clouatre v. Lockwood
Most-quoted passages
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“In accordance with regulations of the Secretary, every employee benefit plan shall — • (1) provide adequate notice in writing to any participant or beneficiary whose claim for benefits under the plan has been denied, setting forth the specific reasons for such denial, written in a manner calculated to be understood by the participant, and (2) afford a reasonable opportunity to any participant whose claim for benefits has been denied for a full and fair review by the appropriate named fiduciary of the decision denying the claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“is thus properly limited to those class of documents which provide a plan participant with information concerning how the plan is operated. Claim forms contain none of these qualities. Instead, claim forms are simply documents used in the ministerial day-to-day processing of individual claims pursuant to other documents that determine the plan's operation. 26 Moreover, ERISA's legislative history indicates that Congress did not intend that claim forms be among the materials covered under § 1132(c).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The reporting and disclosure provisions of [ERISA] were intended specifically to insure that plan participants are able to obtain financial information about the plan, as well as information about the benefits which they are eligible to receive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.