Oliver v. Coca Cola Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding the plan administrator acted arbitrarily and capriciously when it “simply ignored relevant medical evidence in order to arrive at the conclusion it desired”
• holding delegation of claims administration does not make claims administrator de facto plan administrator
• finding it arbitrary and capricious to deny benefits for fibromyalgia and chronic pain syndrome when claim was supported by ample evidence and administrator never requested any particular kind of evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

24 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Duperry v. Life Insurance Co. of North America
  Fourth Circuit· 2011-01-24· cited 50×
• Byars v. Coca-Cola Co.
  Eleventh Circuit· 2008-02-22· cited 46×
• Magee v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
  S.D. New York· 2009-06-22· cited 15×
• Tindell v. TREE OF LIFE, INC.
  M.D. Florida· 2009-11-24· cited 8×
• Howard v. Hartford Life & Accident Insurance
  M.D. Florida· 2013-03-15· cited 8×
• Wilson v. Walgreen Income Protection Plan for Pharmacists & Registered Nurses
  M.D. Florida· 2013-04-29· cited 8×
• Herman v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
  M.D. Florida· 2010-02-11· cited 7×
• Mattox v. Life Insurance Co. of North America
  N.D. Georgia· 2008-03-13· cited 7×
• Smiley v. Hartford Life & Accident Insurance
  Second Circuit· 2015-07-17· cited 7×
• Oliver v. Coca-Cola Co.
  Eleventh Circuit· 2008-10-30· cited 5×
• Graham v. Life Insurance Co. of North America
  N.D. Georgia· 2016-11-28· cited 5×
• Smith v. Champion International Corp.
  D. Connecticut· 2008-08-26· cited 4×
• Lesser v. Reliance Standard Life Ins. Co.
  N.D. Georgia· 2019-06-03· cited 3×
• Rohan v. UnitedHealthcare Insurance
  N.D. Florida· 2012-06-12· cited 3×
• Griffin v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield Healthcare Plan of Georgia, Inc.
  N.D. Georgia· 2015-03-12· cited 2×
• Madison v. Greater Georgia Life Insurance Co.
  N.D. Georgia· 2016-12-21· cited 2×
• Harris v. Lincoln Nat'l Life Ins. Co.
  N.D. Alabama· 2019-02-07· cited 2×
• Express Oil Change, LLC v. ANB Insurance Services
  N.D. Alabama· 2013-03-27· cited 2×
• Emery v. American Airlines, Inc.
  S.D. Florida· 2014-10-20· cited 1×
• Dawson v. Cigna Corp.
  S.D. Florida· 2017-06-01· cited 1×

Cites

1 case in this archive is cited by this case.

• Oliver v. Coca Cola Co.
  Eleventh Circuit· 2007-08-29· cited 67×