Legal Opinion
McCauley v. First Unum Life Insurance
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 24, 2008No. Docket 06-5100-cv(L), 06-5529-cv (Con)PublishedCited by 134 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN M. WALKER, JR., Circuit Judge:
In light of the Supreme Court’s decision in Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. v. Glenn, — U.S.-, 128 S.Ct. 2343, 171 L.Ed.2d 299 (2008), we must reassess our standard of review governing cases such as this one that challenge an Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”) plan administrator’s decision to deny disability benefits, where the administrator has a conflict of interest because it has both the discretionary authority to determine the validity of the employee’s claim and pays the benefits under the policy. Our current standard of review allows a…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. BruchSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- Metropolitan Life Insurance v. GlennSupreme Court of the United States · 2008
- Gloria Pagan v. Nynex Pension Plan and Nynex CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1995
- Wanda Glenn v. Metlife (Metropolitan Life Insurance Company) and Long Term Disability Plan for Associates of Sears, Roebuck and CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2006
- Anna Fay and Louis Fay v. Oxford Health Plan, Mount Sinai Medical Center Point-Of-Service-PlanCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2002
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3Cited by134 opinions
- Williams v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 2010
- Hobson v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2009
- Denmark v. Liberty Life Assurance Co.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 2009
- Durakovic v. BUILDING SERVICE 32 BJ PENSION FUNDCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2010
- Mark Stephan v. Unum Life Insurance Company OfCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2012
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