Mary Anne Bendixen v. Standard Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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• reviewing court must uphold a plan administrator's decision under an abuse of discretion standard if the decision is based on a reasonable interpretation of the plan's terms and was made in good faith
• finding reasonable insurer’s interpretation of “own occupation” to include jobs with other employers
• “Although there may be contradictory evidence in the record, we hold that, as a matter of law, the plan administrator did not abuse its discretion by concluding that [the plaintiff] was not disabled by her mental illness[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).