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20-1588·ERISA

Robin Thomas v. Aetna Life Insurance Company

Status
  1. Scheduled
  2. Argued (current)
  3. Opinion Issued
Question Presented

Whether district court erred in finding, on summary judgment, that insurance company had not abused its discretion in denying plaintiff's claims of neurocognitive disability.

Argument Date
December 8, 2021
Argument Time
9:30 a.m.
Panel
I
Courtroom
Red Courtroom (Room 412)
Lower Court Judge
Hilton

Panel

Chief Judge Gregory
Judge Floyd
Senior Judge Traxler

Citation

CaseRobin Thomas v. Aetna Life Insurance Company, No. 20-1588 (4th Cir. argued Dec. 8, 2021)
PanelGregory, C.J., Traxler, S.J., Floyd, J.

Arguing Counsel

Panel That Day

3 of 4 cases argued December 8, 2021 before this panel have been decided.

Authorship Outlook

With the 3 decided siblings already credited to Chief Judge Gregory and Judge Floyd, the remaining opinion is most likely Senior Judge Traxler's — they wrote at least one opinion in 12 of their 17 prior multi-case days.

3 of the 4 opinions from this panel have been decided. Decided opinions have been authored by Chief Judge Gregory and Judge Floyd.

This is a statistical guess based on prior sittings in this dataset, not a prediction of the ruling.

Predicted Opinion Release

Likely between December 18, 2026 and September 2, 2032, with November 18, 2027 the most likely date.

Argued 1785 days ago. The case has now outlasted nearly every comparable prior case (100% of mass consumed); a separate writing or a contentious majority is likely in progress.

■ ■ ■Calibrated from a deep history (24 prior subject cases + 4 prior panel cases)

80% predictive interval from a log-logistic accelerated-failure-time model fit on 2,134 prior decided cases plus 111 currently-pending cases as right-censored evidence. Updates as days pass with no opinion. How this is calculated →