Speciale v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield Ass'n

How courts have described this case

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• noting that administrators’ decisions must be based on a reasonable explanation of relevant plan documents in order to be upheld
• choosing to weigh one doctor’s “specific, ... quantified” functional capacity report over the opinion of another doctor whose report was more “tentative”
• approving of an administrator’s decision to give greater weight to the opinion of a physician who gave a “specific ... quantified” opinion and had “expertise in pain management” over the opinion of a doctor whose opinion lacked those qualifications
• because plan administrator not a court of law, administrator not bound by rules of evidence
• “A plan administrator is not a court of law and is not bound by the rules of evi- dence.”
• “A plan administrator is not a court of law and is not bound by the rules of evi- dence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).