2nd Circuit Upholds Benefit Denial Based On Eligibility Requirement

NEW YORK - A federal district court properly held that a pension plan did not violate the Employee Retirement Income Security Act by denying disability benefits, even though the district court relied on a plan provision that the plan failed to invoke in its denial notice, because the district court relied on an eligibility requirement, the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed Feb. 21 in an unpublished order (Edward McCormack v. Joint Industry Board of the Electrical Industry, et al., No...(read more)