Succession of Cass

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that plan administrators do not have to give special weight to the opinion of a claimant’s treating physician over other medical professionals
• declining to evaluate evidence because review \is confined to the evidence before the plan administrators\
• “it is within a plan administrator’s discretion to have the “ability to choose among conflicting medical evidence”
• “[T]he CDC’s Lyme-testing criteria and procedures are a matter of public record, and it cannot be reasonably questioned that the agency's website is an accurate source for those standards”
• “[T]he CDC’s Lyme-testing criteria and procedures are a matter of public record, and it cannot be reasonably questioned that the agency’s website is an accurate source for those standards”
• “[T]he CDC’s Lyme- testing criteria and procedures are a matter of public record, and it cannot be reasonably questioned that the agency’s website is an accurate source for those standards.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).