Beverly D. Woo v. Deluxe Corp., Hartford Life Insurance Co., Doing Business as Itt Hartford, Inc., Sued as Hartford Life Insurance Co.

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• concluding that failing to investigate an ERISA plan beneficiary’s claim of disability was a procedural irregularity
• holding that administrator erred in refusing independent medical examination where treating physician determined applicant was disabled and where there was evidence of an uncommon disease
• noting that a conflict of interest or a procedural irregularity can heighten judicial scrutiny
• concluding the administrator failed to use proper judgment by not having an expert review the claimant’s difficult to diagnose claim
• stating that a claimant must establish that the procedural irregularity has \some connection to the substantive decision reached\
• explaining that a procedural irregularity must have “some connection to the substantive decision reached” to trigger more exacting scrutiny of the administrator’s determination

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).