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<section article="gin" article_name="Insurance" number="8-310" title_number="8" title_name="Entities That Act as Insurers" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Third Party Administrators">
  <text>An administrator shall discharge the administrator’s duties with respect to a plan or a life insurer:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>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;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>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;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>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;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="4">
    <text>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</text>
  </level>
  <level label="5">
    <text>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.</text>
  </level>
</section>
