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The Tenth Circuit dismissed the complaint because the petitioner failed to sufficiently allege that the consultant had fiduciary status.
The Court explained that “fiduciary status requires authority or responsibility that is discretionary, which entails ‘the freedom to decide what should be done in a particular situation’” and that conducting a routine computation, as required by one’s job, does not require discretion. The Court also relied on the Department of Labor’s regulations, 29 C.F.R. §§ 2509.75-8 and 2509.75-5, which explain that “a person who performs administrative functions, such as calculating benefits, does not automatically have discretionary authority.” Because the Court concluded that the consultant was not a plan fiduciary, it determined that it need not decide whether the fiduciary status could support liability of the other defendants.
The case is Lebahn v. Nat’l Farmers Union Unif. Pension Plan, et al., No. 15-3201, 2016 BL 221313 (10th Cir. July 11, 2016).
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