Hines v. Unum Life Insurance Co. of America

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• holding the plan administrator should have given the social security disability award significant weight where the definitions of disability in the social security regulations and the plan are sufficiently analogous
• “[T]he amount of deference given to an administrator’s denial of benefits is inversely proportional to the degree of self-dealing evident in the record.”

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