Russann H. Hall v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the administrative record must include “the materials compiled by the administrator in the course of making his decision” to deny benefits
• explaining that the party seeking to supplement the record bears the burden of showing how the evidence is necessary to the district court’s review
• providing a non-exhaustive list of various circumstances in ERISA cases that “could warrant the admission of additional evidence”
• “Supplementation . . . help[s] protect employees’ substantive rights in those limited circumstances where extra-record evidence is relevant and necessary.”
• “federal courts are limited to the ‘administrative record’—the materials compiled by the administrator in the course of making [its] decision”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).