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· 3/7/2008

Giertz-Richardson v. Hartford Life & Accident Insurance

Citations

  • 536 F. Supp. 2d 1280
  • 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 17896
  • 2008 WL 648988

How courts have described this case

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  • concluding that administrator was not wrong to credit opinions of independent reviewing doctors over plaintiff’s own doctors
  • administrators “not required to automatically give significant weight to all subjective complaints” because benefits would always be payable based on those complaints
  • “While Plaintiffs doctors believe that Plaintiff was unable to work, it was not wrong for Defendant to credit the opinions of the [] doctors that reviewed Plaintiffs medical records over the opinions of Plaintiffs [sic] doctors.”

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Judges: Susan C. Bucklew

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