Maryland § 8-310

§ 8-310.

    An 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.