Buddeberg v. Sutherland

How courts have described this case

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• applying modified standard based solely on fact that plan administrator was plan insurer
• refusing to consider plan administrator’s evidence developed after the final denial of benefits
• “The administration of benefit and pension plans should be the function of the designated fiduciaries, not the federal courts.”
• An administrator faces a conflict of interest where a decision to grant or deny benefits impacts the insurer’s financial interests as it “both administers the plan and pays for benefits received by its members.”
• where administrative record inadequate to allow district court a meaningful review, remand is necessary
• “The more incentive for the administrator or fiduciary to benefit itself by a certain interpretation of benefit eligibility or other plan terms, the more objectively reasonable the administrator or fiduciary’s deci sion must be and the more substantial the evidence must be to support it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).