Liston v. Unum Corp. Officer Severance Plan

How courts have described this case

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• noting that plaintiff's argument regarding the impropriety of summary judgment was based on evidence beyond the administrative record
• noting that a court’s review under ERISA is generally limited to materials in the administrative record
• stating that on cross motions for summary judgment in an ERISA case, \the issue ... is simply whether the judge deems the administrator’s denial of benefits irrational\
• finding meaningful review where “the Council afforded her a full adversarial and evidentiary hearing” and both parties were represented by counsel
• precluding supplementation of an administrative record, reasoning \how could an administrator act unreasonably by ignoring information never presented to it?\
• “[0]n the contrary, the rationality standard tends to resolve doubts in favor of the administrator.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).