McDonough v. Aetna Life Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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

• deeming inadequate \passing references\ in medical reviews to \the appellant's 'own occupation' or 'own sedentary level occupation' \ when \unaccompanied by any attempt to articulate the material duties of the appellant's own occupation\
• “under an own occupation standard, medical evidence is only part of the equation . . . a decisionmaker must be aware of, and apply, the requirements of the occupation”
• “The statutory. . . maximum is a ceiling on the amount of any daily penalty that may be imposed. . . . the amount of the penalty has been left by Congress to the sound discretion of the district court.”
• “A court that undertakes abuse of discretion review in an ERISA case must determine whether the claims administrator’s decision is arbitrary and capricious or, looked at from another angle, whether that decision is reasonable and supported by substantial evidence on the record as a whole.”

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