Abatie v. Alta Health & Life Ins. Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• overruling Atwood, and holding that a structural conflict of interest exists when an administrator acts as both the funding source and administrator of the plan that must be taken into account as a factor in determining whether an abuse of discretion occurred
• “an insurer that acts as both the plan administrator and the funding source for benefits operates under what may be termed a structural conflict of interest”
• “We have held that an insurer that acts as both the plan administrator and the funding source for benefits operates under what may be termed a structural conflict of interest.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).