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Eleventh Circuit Eliminates "Heightened" Standard of Review for Benefit Claim Decisions |
October 7, 2008
Previously published on September 25, 2008
The Eleventh Circuit has held that the "heightened" arbitrary and capricious standard of review previously used by the court in cases where a conflicted plan administrator decided a claim for benefits - and its accompanying burden-shifting analysis - does not survive the Supreme Court's recent decision in Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Glenn, 128 S. Ct. 2343 (2008).
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