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042409P.pdf   01/19/2006  Linda Pralutsky  v.  Metropolitan Life
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  04-2409
                          and No:  04-3239
   District of Minnesota   
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Wollman and Bye, Circuit Judges]
   Civil case - ERISA. District court erred in finding that the decision to
   deny benefits was founded on a serious procedural irregularity in the
   claim review process; as a result, the decision to deny benefits should
   have been reviewed under the abuse of discretion standard; applying that
   standard, it was not unreasonable for the plan administrator to deny
   benefits based upon a lack of objective evidence. Judge Bye, dissenting.