Willis v. Baxter International, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• suggesting that once an underlying physical or mental impairment is shown by medically acceptable objective evidence,, the adjudicator must evaluate the disability effects of claimant’s pain, even if intensity or severity is only shown by subjective evidence
• finding abuse of discretion where decision maker' “rejected a substantial amount of plaintiffs medical evidence” and “considered each impairment (and the supporting medical evidence) in isolation”
• rejecting plan administrator’s requirement that claimant show “objective medical proof of subjective impairments”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).