Carter v. Hewlett-Packard Co.

MEMORANDUM *

Debra Carter (“Carter”) appeals the district court’s judgment for the defendants. Under the relevant disability-benefits plan (“the Plan”), an independent claims administrator, Voluntary Plan Administrator (“VPA”), determines whether a claimant qualifies for benefits. Carter seeks review of VPA’s denial of her petition for long-term benefits, asserting that this denial was an abuse of the VPA’s discretion.

*527Abatie v. Alta Health & Life Insurance Co., 458 F.3d 955 (9th Cir.2006), filed the day before argument here, fundamentally changed how we review administrator determinations…