Nance v. Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada

How courts have described this case

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

• finding coverage decision that survived “stringent” de novo review necessarily couldn’t be arbitrary and capricious
• emphasizing the importance of “focus[ing] precisely on what decision is at issue, because a plan may grant the administrator discretion to make some decisions but not others”
• referring to de novo review as “stringent”
• “Proof must be satisfactory to Sun Life”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).