Colby v. Union Security Insurance Co. & Management Co. for Merrimack Anesthesia Associates Long Term Disability Plan

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “there is a sharp distinction between deferential review and no review at all”
• noting 43 that “there is a sharp distinction between deferential review and no review at all”
• factoring an administrator’s disregard of the court’s remand order into whether the administrator acted arbitrarily and capriciously post-remand
• “[W]e hasten to add that there is a sharp distinction between deferential review and no review at all.”
• \[T]he discretion of a plan administrator is cabined by the text of the plan and the plain meaning of the words used.\
• “The provisions of an ERISA plan must be read in a natural, commonsense way.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).