What is the standard of review of a pension plan administrator's decisions?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Bogue v. Ampex Corp., 976 F.2d 1319 (9th Cir. 1992):
29 Oster v. Barco of Cal. Employees' Retirement Plan, 869 F.2d 1215, 1217 (9th Cir.1988). Because the great deference accorded a plan administrator arises in part from the assumption of trust law that the trustee has no pecuniary interest in his decisions, proof that the trustee does have such interest correspondingly strengthens the court's level of review.
30 489 U.S. at 115, 109 S.Ct. at 956.
31 Bogue, 750 F.Supp. at 429-30.
32 Id. at 429.
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