Pens. Plan Guide P 23922q Juanita Yeager v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that administrator did not act arbitrarily in discounting claimant’s “subjective complaints[, that] are easy to make, but almost impossible to refute”
• holding that administrator did not act arbitrarily in discounting claimant’s “subjective complaint [,that] are easy to make, but almost impossible to refute”
• holding that “in the absence of any definite anatomic explanations of plaintiffs symptoms, we cannot find that the administrator’s decision to deny benefits was arbitrary and capricious.”
• holding that the plan’s requirement that claimant submit “satisfactory proof of Total Disability to us” was sufficient grant of discretion to warrant application of arbitrary and capricious standard of review
• discussing the importance of medical support for fibromyalgia-related disabilities, given the subjective nature of the symptoms
• holding that only medical evidence of a diagnoses of such a condition is necessary to find a disability from such an illness.

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