Terri Truitt v. Unum Life Ins Co. of America

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that our review of an administrator’s decision to deny benefits “focus[es] on whether the record adequately supports the administrator’s decision ” (emphasis added
• finding that an administrator gave “careful consideration” of a claim after a “years-long investigation” during which it “consulted with, or reviewed reports by, more than ten medical and vocational experts” and gave the claimant opportunities to introduce evidence in support of her claim
• “A plan administrator has a conflict of interest if it both evaluates claims for benefits and pays benefits claims.” (internal quotations omitted)
• “[T]his court has not listed reliance as an element of fraudulent misrepresentation under federal common law.”
• containing a detailed factual record

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).