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192367P.pdf   08/25/2020  Melissa McIntyre  v.  Reliance Standard Life Ins Co
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  19-2367
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota   
   [PUBLISHED] [Gruender, Author, with Wollman and Kobes, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - ERISA. The district court erred in reviewing the plan 
   administrator's decision to deny long-term disability benefits de novo 
   rather than for an abuse of discretion, and the district court's judgment 
   for the plan beneficiary is vacated; decisional delay does not in an of 
   itself trigger de novo review; remanded to permit the district court to 
   review defendant's benefits decision for an abuse of discretion consistent 
   with this circuit's precedents.