United States Tenth Circuit

Summary judgment in favor of defendant-plan administrator in an ERISA case alleging wrongful denial of benefits and a breach of fiduciary duty is affirmed where the plan administrator's denial of additional life insurance benefits to plaintiff following the accidental death of her husband was not arbitrary and capricious.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/02/2006
• Published 08/03/2006

Judges

• KELLY, Circuit Judge., Before KELLY, LUCERO, Circuit Judges, and EAGAN, District Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Brian S. King, Attorney at Law, Salt Lake City, UT, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Scott M. Petersen (and David N. Kelley, on the brief), Fabian & Clendenin, Salt Lake City, UT, for Defendant-Appellee.