Hobson v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “we are not free to substitute our own judgment for that of the insurer” (internal quotation marks and alteration omitted)
• “[C]ourts have no warrant to require administrators automatically to accord special weight 8 to the opinions of a claimant’s physician . . . .” (quoting Black & Decker Disability Plan v. Nord, 9 538 U.S. 822, 834 (2003))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).