essentially meaningless. The statute’s purpose of protecting employees whose benefits are threatened by their pension plan’s financial instability is best farthered by placing the functions most vital to participants’ well-being, interpreting the plan and determining benefits, with a fiduciary that is bound to act in their best interests. Taken together, the provisions of Title IV establish that, when PBGC is appointed a plan’s trustee following a decree of termination, it is subject to a fiduciary duty in all actions except those involving the function, statutorily reserved to the agency, of calculating the amount of benefits that are guaranteed under § 1322. Burstein v. Ret Account Plan for Employees of Allegheny Health Ed. and Res. Found., 334 F.3d 365, 381-82 & n. 23 (3d Cir.2003) (<HOLDING>). Thus, plaintiffs may maintain their claims
holding that a termination of an erisa plans benefits must be based upon the plans terms and language holding that a statute relates to erisa plans for the purposes of preemption if it requires the plans to purchase the  benefits specified in the statute when they purchase a certain kind of common insurance policy holding that pbgc acts as trustee for plans subject to termination except when it calculates guaranteed amounts under  1322 holding that the trustee of a nominee trust functions more as an agent than as a true trustee holding that a state law requiring benefit plans to include minimum benefits related to erisa plans