Schexnayder v. CF Industries Long Term Disability Plan for It's Employees

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the Hartford, as plan administrator, had abused its discretion in failing to consider the fact that plaintiff “was in considerable pain during the [functional capacity] evaluation”
• finding abuse of discretion where insurer discounted evidence of pain and relied on non-examining physicians’ opinions
• awarding attorneys’ fees where the administrator “scoured the record for evidence consistent with the outcome which was most financially beneficial for itself.”
• “Accounts of pain cannot be ignored.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).