Christine M. Donato v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a denial of benefits was not unreasonable where the decision-maker had relied on the position of an independent medical consultant
• noting that insurer/plan fiduciary \was bound only to consider what evidence and information it had before it\
• upholding plan fiduciary’s denial of claims where decision was based on a permissible choice between independent, non-examining medical consultants and plaintiff’s doctors
• noting 9In his attending physician's statement of disability, Renner diagnosed Wood as suffering from \anxiety\ in addition to depression and hypertension. (R. at PW0082.
• plan trustee is “bound only to consider what evidence and information it had before it”
• review of medical records by “a roundtable of physicians and a board-certified allergist-immunologist”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).