Bettye Whitaker v. Hartford Life and Accident Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an ERISA plan administrator is not bound by an SSA disability determination when reviewing a claim for benefits
• affirming benefits denial where insurer relied on medical records review from two independent physicians who concluded that claimant was not disabled within the plan’s meaning
• “a claim for benefits under an ERISA plan often turns on the interpretation of plan terms that differ from SSA criteria”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).