Vargas v. Norris
Case Details
- Nature of Suit — the legal category of the dispute
- 440 Civil Rights: Other
- Status — whether other courts must follow this ruling
- Unknown
- Procedural Posture — the stage the case had reached
- appeal
- State
- New Mexico
- Circuit
- Tenth Circuit
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Claim Types
Outcome
The court reversed the district court's grant of summary judgment for MetLife and remanded the case, finding that MetLife's failure to obtain and consider Social Security medical records—which it had led the claimant to believe it would review—constituted a serious procedural irregularity requiring reconsideration of the long-term disability benefits denial under ERISA.
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