COOK, Circuit Judge, concurring in the judgment. While decisions from this circuit accept that we must analyze this brand of ERISA cases under the arbitrary and capricious standard of review, in practice we seem to stray improperly from that standard in favor of a more searching one. A handful of factors — such as supposedly contrary Social Security Administration (SSA) disability determinations, apparent…
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