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The Importance Of Being Precise In Summary Plan Descriptions: A Review Of Recent Cases

Keith R. McMurdy | Grotta, Glassman & Hoffman, P.A.

The Summary Plan Description, or SPD, for your employee welfare benefit plans is the document that tells plan participants what rights they have and how to act and protect those rights. The Employee Retirement Income Security Act ("ERISA") contains extensive regulations on what has to be contained...