Michael Alves v. Hewlett-Packard Comprehensive

FILED

NOT FOR PUBLICATION

MAR 10 2022

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS MOLLY C. DWYER, CLERK

U.S. COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

MICHAEL ALVES, No. 21-55476

Plaintiff-Appellant, D.C. No. 2:16-cv-09136-RGK-JEM v.

HEWLETT-PACKARD MEMORANDUM*

COMPREHENSIVE WELFARE

BENEFITS PLAN; HEWLETT-

PACKARD ENTERPRISE COMPANY,

Defendants-Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California R. Gary Klausner, District Judge, Presiding

Submitted March 7, 2022** Pasadena, California

Before: IKUTA, LEE, and FORREST, Circuit Judges.

Michael Alves appeals the district court’s ruling that Sedgwick Claims

Management Services, Inc. (“Sedgwick”), the ERISA plan administrator of the

* This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by Ninth Circuit Rule 36-3. ** The panel unanimously concludes this case is suitable for decision without oral argument. See Fed. R. App. P. 34(a)(2). Hewlett-Packard Comprehensive Welfare Benefits Plan (the “Plan”), did not abuse

its discretion in denying Alves’s…