United States First Circuit

In an ERISA case, alleging that the administrator of plaintiff's former employer's executive severance plan denied him severance benefits after erroneously determining that he had retired voluntarily from his position and that the former-employer interfered with plaintiff's rights under the plan, 29 U.S.C. section 1140, the district court's grant of summary judgment to defendant on both counts is: 1) affirmed in part where the plan administrator's decision to deny plaintiff's claim for benefits was both supported by substantial evidence and procedurally proper; but 2) vacated as to the interference claim.

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• Decided 04/21/2015
• Published 04/21/2015

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• United States First Circuit

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