Hilton v. Florida

How courts have described this case

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

• deciding that the administrator’s denial was not arbitrary and capricious because the claimant’s “evidence taken alone was inadequate to support his claim”
• concluding, in analogous context, that any potential conflict of interest from both evaluating and paying claims should receive \no weight\
• noting that plaintiff carries the burden of demonstrating that the conflict of interest actually affected the administrator's decision-making
• noting that the existence of a conflict of interest is a factor to be considered as part of a court’s arbitrary-and-capricious analysis
• stating that the burden was on the claimant to identify evidence that the committee’s categorical conflict of interest “actually affected the administrator’s decision.”
• “[N]othing requires plan administrators to scour the countryside in search of evidence to bolster a petitioner’s case.” (internal quotation marks and alterations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).