Corry v. Liberty Life Assur. Co. of Boston

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a plan fiduciary does not abuse its discretion if its decision “is supported by substantial evidence and is not arbitrary and capricious” (citation omitted)
• stating that “the job of weighing valid, conflicting professional medical opinions is not the job of the courts; that job has been given to the administrators of ERISA plans.”
• affirming that opinions of three consulting physicians that no objective evidence supported plaintiff’s disability claim based on chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia, among other conditions, constituted substantial evidence to support denial of her disability claim
• affirming ruling that claim determination was not arbitrary and capricious where claim administrator considered subjective complaints in disability determination
• review of administrator’s decision “need only assure that the administrator’s decision fall somewhere on the continuum of reasonableness—even if on the low end”
• review of administrator’s decision “need only assure that the administrator’s decision fall somewhere on the continuum of reasonableness — even if on the low end”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).