Plan Participant Failed To Submit Election Form As Required By Plan Terms

Mealey's (October 25, 2018, 9:57 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A plan administrator of an early-out voluntary severance plan did not act arbitrarily and capriciously in denying a plan participant’s claim for lump-sum benefits under the plan because the participant failed to submit the online election bid form as required by the plan, an Illinois federal judge said Oct. 23 (Jerome Scarber v. United Airlines Inc. et al., No. 15-9147, N.D. Ill., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 181475)....