Melanie Stratton Jeffrey Stratton, Her Husband v. E.I. Dupont De Nemours & Co

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• holding that when a company makes a conscientious effort to keep a claimant apprised of information it had at its disposal and provides the reasons behind its decisions, the arbitrary and capricious standard will not be heightened
• assuming that plaintiff had no ERISA or claims experience and defendant, a large company, was highly experienced
• assuming that individual employee had no reason to have ERISA or claims experience, whereas the plan administrator “had numerous such claims”
• assuming that plaintiff had no ERISA or claims experience and that defendant, a large company, was highly experienced
• considering an ERISA plan's funding and decisionmaking mechanisms in deciding on a level of review
• upholding district court’s finding that the insurer did not act arbitrarily by refusing to defer to a report from patient’s treating physician

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