PATRICK TORRES, — v. UNUM LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA, —

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• stating that one of the factors to be considered in determining if there has been an abuse of discretion is “whether the administrator’s interpretation is consistent with the goals of the Plan”
• stating that one of the factors to be considered in determining if there has been an abuse of discretion is “whether the administrator’s interpretation is consistent with the goals of the Plan”
• finding that when the only medical evidence in the record supports the employee’s claim that he was unable to perform at his job, the failure to credit this evidence is an abuse of discretion
• finding the plan administrator’s failure to consider the side effects of medicine prescribed to the claimant was unreasonable
• noting only two cases which satisfied the second prong of Woo
• “Review of an administrator’s decision under an abuse of discretion standard, though deferential, is not tantamount to rubber-stamping the result.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).