Seymour Zuckerbrod v. Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company

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• holding that plan language stating that if nursing care was “essential, in our judgment, for the treatment of a Covered Person’s Injury or sickness” was sufficient to confer discretion on administrator
• holding that, in evaluating whether a benefit denial was arbitrary and capricious, a court considers “whether [the defendant’s] decision was based on a consideration of the relevant factors and whether there has been a clear error of judgment.”
• declining to reach conflict of interest issue under similar circumstances

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).