11th Circuit’s Structural Conflict Of Interest Ruling Will Not Be Reviewed
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 12 declined to review an 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that a disability insurer possessed a reasonable basis for its decisions to terminate benefits and its structural conflict of interest did not render those decisions arbitrary and capricious under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (Frank Blankenship v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, No. 11-444, U.S.).
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