Lijoi v. Continental Casualty Co.

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting insurer’s reliance on Muller and converting its motion for judgment on the administrative record to a motion for summary judgment
• permitting plaintiff to admit evidence outside administrative record where insurer was both reviewer and payor of claims, and plaintiff pointed to deficiencies in procedural clarity of claims process
• “Once the determination has been made to admit additional evidence into the de novo review, the Court is not temporally bound to evidence that either was, or should have been, available to the administrator at the time it made its claim determination.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).