Legal Opinion
Buffonge v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 14, 2005No. 05-1416PublishedCited by 91 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
We have not previously addressed the issue raised in this ERISA appeal, which comes to us from the district court’s entry of summary judgment concluding that a claims administrator’s denial of long-term disability benefits was not arbitrary and capricious. The plaintiff appeals and asserts that his ERISA rights were violated because the administrator relied on material mischaracterizations of the medical record.
The claims administrator, Prudential Insurance Company of America, and eo-ap-pellee Getronies Wang Co., LLC, the employer, stated that they based their denial of…
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