Black & Decker Disability Plan v. Nord

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that ERISA plan administrators “are not obliged to accord special deference to the opinions of treating physicians”
• acknowledging that physicians retained by benefit plans “may have an incentive to make a finding of ‘not disabled’”
• “Nothing in the Act itself ... suggests that plan administrators must accord special deference to the opinions of treating physicians.”
• addressing rule of giving “special weight” to treating physician

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).