Leahy v. Raytheon Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the plaintiff’s unsuccessful application for social security disability benefits provided “some evidence that he was not fully disabled”
• stating that a treating physician’s opinion that a claim ant is totally disabled may be rebutted by other evidence
• holding that summary judgment is not the proper standard of review in an ERISA case, because “trial is usually not an option: in a very real sense, the district court sits more as an appellate tribunal than as a trial court”
• noting that some courts “giv[e] lip service to the summary judgment standard but then proceed[] to examine the evidence under the arbitrary and capricious standard”
• noting that, after a prisoner is released, there is “no ‘prisoner’s account’ 12 from which to deduct . . . payments”
• noting that “when the medical evidence is sharply conflicted, the deference due to the plan administrator’s determination may be especially great”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).