Wakkinen v. Unum Life Insurance Co. of America

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that courts considering denials of benefits under ERISA should determine only whether a reasonable person could have—not would have—reached a similar decision
• noting “the Supreme Court has recently held that a plan administrator which both evaluates claims for benefits and pays benefit claims ... is operating under a conflict of interest”
• “Wakkinen points to no evidence that calls into question the expertise of Dr. Jacobson personally or of a doctor who specializes in occupational medicine to offer an opinion on the condition of fibromyalgia”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).