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161714P.pdf   05/08/2017  Lisa Jones  v.  Aetna Life Insurance Company
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  16-1714
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
[PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Smith, Chief Judge, and Wollman, Circuit Judge] Civil case - ERISA. This court's cases conflict about whether a plan participant or beneficiary bringing a Section 1132(a)(1)(B) claim to recover benefits due her under the terms of the plan may also bring a Section 1132(a)(3) claim to obtain benefits as other appropriate equitable relief for a breach of fiduciary duty by a plan administrator; the two claims assert different theories of liability and a plan participant or benefit can file an action raising both claims; as a result, the district court erred in dismissing plaintiff's Section 1132(a)(3) claim, and the dismissal is reversed; with respect to the district court's order granting defendant summary judgment on plaintiff's Section 1132(a)(1)(B) claim, the plan's determination that plaintiff was not disabled was not unreasonable and the summary judgment is affirmed. Reversed in part, affirmed in part and remanded for further proceedings.