Susan E. Hess v. Hartford Life & Accident Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that sometimes “common sense will require the court to pronounce an administrator’s determination arbitrary and capricious”
• stating that a construction of a plan that ignores its plain language is unreasonable
• analogizing submission of case on administrative record to a bench trial and reviewing for clear error
• “The fact that the examiner did not bother .to read pertinent evidence actually before him cannot shield Hartford’s decision from review.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).