O'Sullivan v. Jacaranda Club, LLC

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that even a plan's failure to contact a treating physician is not an abuse of discretion
• Eleventh Circuit held that plan which gave administrator “final and conclusive” authority to make determinations granted discretionary authority
• “[Plan administrator] has the exclusive right to interpret the provisions of th[is] Plan, so its decision is conclusive and binding.”
• “The plan in this case does give the administrator of the plan discretionary authority to determine eligibility for benefits and to construe the plan’s terms. . . . Accordingly, the arbitrary and capricious standard of review applies here.”
• “When conducting a review of an ERISA benefits denial under an arbitrary and capricious standard (sometimes used interchangeably with an abuse of discretion standard), the function of the court is to determine whether there was a reasonable basis for the decision. . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).