Mote v. Aetna Life Insurance

In fact-specific cases like this one, the court of appeals is usually defacto the last stop on the road for the litigants. It is thus critical that we get the facts right, even if we agree on the governing legal standards. Here, although I agree with the majority’s assessment of the claims against Aetna, the administrator of the plan at issue, I must part ways with its evaluation of Brenda Mote’s claims against the long-term disability plan (“the Plan”). According to Mote’s treating physicians and other specialists, since at least 1998 she has suffered from fibromyalgia, migraines, a sleep…