Current with changes from the 2024 Legislative Session
Section 8-310 - Administrator's duties with respect to planAn administrator shall discharge the administrator's duties with respect to a plan or a life insurer:
(1) solely in the interest of providing to the plan's participants and beneficiaries the benefits to which they are entitled under the plan or on behalf of a life insurer;(2) for the exclusive purpose of providing benefits to the plan's participants and beneficiaries and defraying reasonable expenses of administering the plan or on behalf of a life insurer;(3) with the care, skill, prudence, and diligence that a prudent person acting in a similar capacity and under similar circumstances would use to conduct an enterprise of similar character and with similar aims;(4) if applicable, by diversifying the investments of the plan or the life insurer to minimize the risk of large losses, unless under the circumstances it is clearly prudent not to do so; and(5) in accordance with the documents and instruments governing the plan or the life insurer to the extent that the documents and instruments are not inconsistent with this subtitle.Amended by 2019 Md. Laws, Ch. 100,Sec. 1, eff. 10/1/2019.