Alton Robinson v. Aetna Life Insurance Company

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• holding that a court must review the “actual basis for the administrator's denial of benefits, not its post-hoc rationalization”
• noting that the administrative record reflected that the claimant had to drive hundreds of miles each week for his job, and there was no evidence suggesting that driving was not a material duty of his occupation
• rendering judgment in favor of beneficiary when “no concrete evidence supported the administrator’s basis for denying benefits”
• rendering judgment in favor of beneficiary when “no concrete evidence supported the administrator’s basis for denying benefits”
• rejecting insurer’s argument that evidence of claimant's specific job duties are irrelevant under general interpretation of the “own occupation” standard
• applying a sub- stantial compliance standard to alleged procedural violations under ERISA

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