Patricia Elliott v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit · Decided 2006-11-15

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BOGGS, Chief Judge. This case presents the questions of whether an ERISA plan’s determination to deny benefits was arbitrary and capricious and, if it was, what remedy this court should order. Patricia Elliott submitted a claim for long-term disability benefits to the administrator of her employer’s employee benefit plan, Metropolitan Life (“MetLife”). MetLife denied Elliott’s c…

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