Holcomb v. Unum Life Insurance Co. of America

How courts have described this case

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• affording limited weight to conflict where conflicted administrator hired independent physicians rather than “rely solely on the evaluations and medical opinions of its own on-site physicians and nurses”
• “A conflict . . . ‘should prove less important (perhaps to the vanishing point) where the administrator has taken active steps to reduce potential bias and to promote accuracy . . . ’” (quoting Metro. Life Ins. Co. v. Glenn, 554 U.S. 105, 117 (2008))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).