Robert E. Muller, Antoinette I. Muller v. First Unum Life Insurance Company

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• holding that a ruling on a motion for judgment on the administrative record is akin to a bench trial “on the papers”
• holding that a “bench trial on the papers with the District Court acting as the finder of fact” was “entirely proper” in an ERISA case
• noting that the plan administrator “gave [the participant] ample time to submit additional materials”
• observing that “[t]he decision whether to consider evidence from outside the administrative record is within the discretion of the district court,” as long as there is “good cause” to do so
• construing the district court's disposition of defendant's \motion for judgment on the administrative record\ as \essentially a bench trial 'on the papers' \
• identifying no good cause where plaintiff had “ample time to submit additional materials” into administrative record and failed to do so

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).