Court Opinion

ID: 9500582
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 18:20:08.672103+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:00:00.118798
License: Public Domain

*192HAYNES, Circuit Judge,
concurring in part:
I agree that the decision of the district court should be reversed. However, I have reviewed the provisions of the plan so carefully and thoroughly set forth in the majority opinion. Taken as a whole, I cannot read these provisions to require preauthorization for this particular circumstance as a condition precedent to any recovery regardless of any other circumstances. Thus, I conclude there is no ambiguity, and I would hold that the plan administrator abused its discretion in concluding to the contrary. However, other reasons were given for denial of benefits, so I concur in remanding for purposes of considering those issues.