More on U.S. Supreme Court Cases

Some very good articles have been posted at EBIA Weekly: this article on the recent Supreme Court case of Nevada Dept. of Human Resource v. Hibbs previously discussed in this blog and this article on another U.S. Supreme Court ERISA case of Black & Decker Disability Plan v. Nord also discussed here. The latter article emphasizes what plan administrators need to be reminded of (if they do not know it already), that is, that even though a plan administrator need not give deference to a treating physician’s opinion, a treating physician’s opinion cannot be ignored and must at least be considered in the decisionmaking process along with the other evidence provided by the claimant.