Pettaway v. Teachers Insurance & Annuity Ass'n of America

How courts have described this case

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

• applying Rule 56 in case where court reviewed an administrator’s benefits determination using an abuse of discretion standard
• ERISA’s “statutory text clearly contemplates multiple relevant documents” and does not “suggest[] that one plan document must contain all the legally relevant terms and language”
• “The results of the additional tests and reviews did not provide a new basis for terminating [the plaintiffs] benefits, but merely supplemented its initial reasoning.”
• “[E]ven though new medical reports were generated during TIAA’s 17 administrative review, the regulations provide for the ‘opportunity to appeal an adverse benefit determination’ and not for the opportunity to engage in a continuous cycle of appeals from appeals.”
• describing radiculopathy as a spinal nerve-root disorder

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).