United States Second Circuit

The district court's orders granting summary judgment to plaintiff on his claim for long term disability benefits pursuant to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) but denying plaintiff's request for attorneys' fees is: 1) affirmed in part, insofar as it entered summary judgment for plaintiff on his claim for long term disability benefits because the denial of the benefits was arbitrary and capricious; but 2) vacated in part, insofar as the district court denied plaintiff's request for attorneys' fees, where it failed to identify a "particular justification" for not awarding such fees.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/11/2014
• Published 03/11/2014

Judges

• CABRANES

Court

• United States Second Circuit

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