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143589P.pdf 01/29/2016 Theodore Ingram v. Terminal Railroad Association
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 14-3589
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Benton and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - ERISA. None of the conflicts and procedural irregularities
relied upon by plaintiff caused a serious breach of the plan
administrator's fiduciary duty and the district court properly reviewed
the administrator's decision under the abuse of discretion standard rather
than the de novo standard advanced by plaintiff; administrator did not
abuse its discretion by determining plaintiff's 2006 signing bonus fell
within the taxable expenses allowance exclusion and would not be included
in calculating his benefits; plan administrator's interpretation of
complex plan provisions concerning offsets was reasonable,consistent with
plan language and consistent the plan's goal and ERISA.