Mona Evans v. Unumprovident Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that restrictions and limitations can be preventive, not merely prohibitive, in order to support a claim of disability
• noting, in discussion of insurer’s arbitrary benefit denial, that claimant whose medical condition was exacerbated by work-related stress experienced improvement in condition on leave
• finding “significant evidence” of a conflict where “a series of inter-office e-mails and memos” between reviewers suggesting “a predisposition toward terminating”
• “[A] plan administrator may not arbitrarily disregard reliable medical evidence proffered by a claimant, including the opinions of a treating physician.”
• “[A] plan administrator may not arbitrarily disregard reliable medical evidence proffered by a claimant, including the opinions of a treating physician.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).