Charlie Groves v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that plan administrator was not required to accept treating physician’s assessment over that of a reviewing physician
• stating that plan administrator was not required to accept treating physician’s assessment over that of a reviewing physician
• upholding a plan’s rejection of a treating physician’s opinion when it was internally inconsistent and offered without support from objective evidence
• upholding a plan’s rejection of a treating physician’s opinion when it was internally inconsistent and offered without support from objective evidence
• “It is not unreasonable for a plan administrator to deny benefits based upon a lack of objective evidence”
• under abuse of discretion standard, court must affirm “if a reasonable person could have reached a similar decision”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).