Philadelphia partners Josh Bachrach and Heather Austin obtained summary judgment in favor of our carrier client in an ERISA case pending in federal court in Pennsylvania. The plaintiff previously worked as a registered nurse but stopped due to symptoms related to focal epilepsy. She described her symptoms as a déjà vu-like feeling that lasted for one to two minutes, followed be a few hours of fatigue and brain fog. Benefits were initially approved but denied after 24 months when the plaintiff had to prove that she was totally disabled from pursuing any occupation. The court rejected the plaintiff’s procedural challenges to the claim decision, including to the applicable standard of review in court. On the merits, the court concluded that our client reasonably rejected the opinions of the treating doctor, who overstated the number of episodes the plaintiff experienced each month and recommended testing to objectively confirm the claimed symptoms, but testing was never performed. The court also concluded that the alternative occupations identified by our client were reasonable. Therefore, the denial of additional benefits was not arbitrary and capricious and Josh and Heather proved our client was entitled to judgment in its favor.