Plan Correctly Found Claimant Did Not Qualify For Disability Benefits

PHILADELPHIA - A pension plan's board of trustees did not act arbitrarily or capriciously when it determined that a plan participant's vacation pay does not count as benefit hours, the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said July 24 in affirming a district court's ruling that the plan participant is not entitled to disability benefits under the pension plan because the participant did not meet the required hours of service necessary to collect disability benefits (Norman Hansen v. International Union of Painters& Allied Trades Industry Pension Plan, et al., No. 18-2921, 3rd Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 22066).
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