Mealey's (September 29, 2017, 10:20 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — An arbitrary and capricious standard of review will be applied in a disability benefits dispute because the plan at issue clearly granted discretionary authority to the insurer and the claimant failed to carry the burden of proving that a de novo standard of review should be applied, a New York federal judge said Sept. 26 (Laurie Tietjen v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America, No. 16-7021, S.D. N.Y., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 157721)....