Vilma Lissette Vega Jose Vega v. National Life Insurance Services, Inc., Pan-American Life Insurance Company

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• holding that in such a situation, the plan administrator decision is reviewed “with only a modicum less deference.”
• holding that in such a situation, the plan administrator decision is reviewed “with only a modicum less deference.”
• noting that the reviewing court “need only assure that the administrator’s decision fall[s] somewhere on a continuum of reasonableness — even if on the low end”
• noting that the reviewing court “need only assure that the administrator’s decision fall[s] somewhere on a continuum of reasonableness — even if on the low end”
• restricting review to the administrative record when the court is considering the administrator's factual determinations for abuse of discretion
• noting that a plan administrator is not obligated to reasonably investigate a claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).