Douglas McOsker v. Paul Revere 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.

• noting a plan administrator may change its mind to terminate benefits when “information available to an insurer alters in some significant way the previous payment of benefits”
• ‘We are not suggesting that paying benefits operates forever as an estoppel so that an insurer can never change its mind.... ”
• “We are not suggesting that paying benefits operates forever as an estoppel so that an insurer can never change its mind . . . .”
• “[Ujnless information available to an insurer alters in some significant way, the previous payment of benefits is a circumstance that must weigh against the propriety of an insurer’s decision to discontinue those payments.”
• “unless information available to an insurer alters in some significant way, the previous payment of benefits is a circumstance that must weigh against the propriety of an insurer’s decision to discontinue those ben efits”
• “We have recently had occasion to remark that in determining whether an insurer has properly terminated benefits that it initially undertook to pay out, it is important to focus on the events that occurred between the conclusion that benefits were owing and the decision to terminate them.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).