5th Circuit Affirms Refusal To Impose Statutory ERISA Penalty In Plan Documents Row

( March 7, 2025, 2:15 PM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — In an unpublished March 6 per curiam opinion saying in part that the appellant didn’t “establish that the district court abused its discretion in” determinations made following a bench trial, a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed discovery and other rulings for the sponsor and administrator of an Employee Retirement Income Security Act medical benefits plan in a documents dispute....