Linda J. Myers v. Hercules, Incorporated Provident Life & Accident Insurance Company

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• rejecting denial of disability benefits based upon sentences in physician reports taken out of context, when reports as a whole supported finding of disability
• finding an abuse of discretion when a plan administrator reached its decision to deny long-term disability benefits by misreading some evidence and taking other bits of evidence out of context
• reversing termination of benefits where plan administrator misread some evidence and took other evidence out of context; reasonable reading of evidence did not support conclusion that claimant could work full time in sedentary job

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