United States Ninth Circuit
HENSLEY v. NORTHWEST PERMANENTE P.C. RETIREMENT PLAN & TRUST, 99-35936
Where a benefit plan vests the administrator with discretion to determine eligibility and court review is for abuse of discretion, administrators may interpret undefined terms in the plan.
Appellate Information
- Argued 05/08/2001
- Decided 08/02/2001
- Published 08/02/2001
Judges
- Before: GOODWIN, GREENBERG, and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Ninth Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellees:
- John V. Acosta, James N. Westwood and Scott E. Crawford, Stoel Rives LLP, Portland, Oregon, for the defendants-appellants-cross-appellees., Karen O'Kasey, Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, Portland, Oregon, for the plaintiffs-appellees-cross-appellants.