The Sheppard & Enoch Pratt Hospital, Incorporated v. Travelers Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that \the district court should not disturb a benefits determination by a trustee authorized to exercise its discretion unless the decision was unreasonable\
• noting that remand is appropriate if the court concludes that the administrator lacked adequate evidence to make a decision
• assessing reasonableness of plan administrator’s decision based only on facts known at time of decision
• refusing to consider affidavit of beneficiary’s treating physi- cian, when beneficiary failed to submit affidavit to plan review committee
• “Thus, although it may be appropriate for a court conducting de novo review of a plan administrator’s action to consider evidence that was not taken into account by the administrator, the contrary approach should be followed when conducting a review ... under the abuse of discretion standard.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).