Lesure v. United States

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that a plan administrator may deny a claim “on the basis of conflicting, reliable evidence”
• holding it was arbitrary and capricious for the plan administrator to rely on favorable evidence while ignoring contrary objective medical evidence in the record
• holding the plan administrator acted arbitrarily and capriciously when it “simply ignored relevant medical evidence in order to arrive at the conclusion it desired”
• explaining that chronic pain syndrome is “not subject to diagnosis by ‘objective’ laboratory tests”
• concluding the third-party administrative services provider was not a proper defendant
• describing the two plan requirements and noting that “[no] provision of the Plan requires ‘objective evidence’ of disability”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).