Panel Remands Widow’s Survivor Annuity Claim, Says Plan Abused Its Discretion

(June 27, 2019, 12:01 AM EDT) -- RICHMOND, Va. — The Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on June 20 reversed and remanded a district court’s ruling in favor of a pension plan after determining that the plan’s failure to disclose an audit conducted by an employer to a widow challenging the calculation of the plan’s survivor annuity benefit was an abuse of discretion (Veda M. Odle v. UMWA 1974 Pension Plan, et al., No. 18-1398, 4th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 18515)....