Chronister v. Unum Life Insurance Co. of America

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• giving more weight to administrator’s conflict of interest where other courts had noted a pattern of arbitrary benefit denials
• remanding the case to the district court for entry of judgment in the plaintiff’s favor when the benefits claim had been pending for more than a decade
• “UNUM’s history of arbitrarily denying claims such as [Plaintiff’s] is another factor that the Court must consider in determining whether UNUM abused its discretion in denying [the] claim.”
• insurer’s policy required it to give “significant weight” to the SSA’s disability determination
• the abuse-of-discretion standard as articulated in Glenn differs from the manner in which the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has applied that standard in that the Supreme Court’s standard eliminates the causal connection requirement between the conflict of interest and the discretionary decision
• applying Glenn to a financial conflict of interest

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