Legal Opinion
Penny Grosz-Salomon v. Paul Revere Life Insurance Company, a Provident Company Cross-Appellee
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided January 29, 2001No. 99-55812, 99-55960PublishedCited by 180 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judge:
This case requires us to decide whether the district court properly reviewed Paul Revere Life Insurance Company’s decision to terminate Penny Grosz-Salomon’s disability insurance benefits for an abuse of discretion, and if so, whether the court’s determination that Paul Revere abused that discretion in denying benefits withstands scrutiny. For the reasons explained below, we hold that the district court erred in applying the abuse of discretion rather than de novo standard of review. However, because this error inured exclusively to Grosz-Salomon’s detriment and she…
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