Zervos v. Verizon New York, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis

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23 federal appellate · 9 district ·

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The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[A] remand of an ERISA action seeking benefits is inappropriate where the difficulty is not that the administrative record was incomplete but that a denial of benefits based on the record was unreasonable.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 581 F. Supp. 2d 403 - Medoy Ex Rel. Estate of Medoy v. Warnaco Employees' Long Term Disability Insurance Plan · 794 F. Supp. 2d 276 - Rothman v. Office Environments of New England Health & Welfare Benefit Plan

2. “require[s] that a treatment be superior to another existing treatment in order to avoid exclusion under the policy's experimental/investigational language while the language itself requires only that the treatment be effective-not more effective than alternatives[.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Meidl v. Aetna, Inc.

3. “[e]ven when trustees of a pension plan are entitled to deference in interpreting the terms of the plan, deference cannot be so broad as to permit them to graft additional requirements onto unambiguous plan definitions.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Meidl v. Aetna, Inc.