United States Ninth Circuit

In an ERISA action challenging defendant-insurer's decision to terminate plaintiff's long-term disability benefits, summary judgment for defendant is reversed where a modicum of evidence in the record supporting the plan administrator's decision will not alone suffice in the face of the administrator's conflict of interest.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/01/2009
• Decided 09/14/2009
• Published 09/14/2009

Judges

• Before WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, RICHARD R. CLIFTON and MILAN D. SMITH, JR., Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Bradley P. Knypstra, Knypstra & Associates, Irvine, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Bruce D. Celebrezze, Dennis G. Rolstad (argued) and Erin A. Cornell, Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP, San Francisco, CA, for the defendant-appellee.