Suarez v. Bartkowski

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a court “may, without further inquiry, award attorney’s fees to a plaintiff who has had some degree of success on the merits” (emphasis omitted)
• explaining that although not dispositive, degree of culpability and relative merits weigh heavily
• finding that either bad faith or culpability may satisfy the first factor
• finding a denial of benefits arbitrary and capricious when disability was supported by the claimant’s examining physician, and refuted only by a non-examining in-house doctor’s evaluation of the claimant’s records
• discussing so-called Chambless factors to consider in awarding discretionary attorney's fees under ERISA
• in part quoting Hardt v. Reliance Standard Life Ins. Co., 560 U.S. 242, 249 n.1, 255 n.8 (2010)

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