A recent ruling from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals focused on an insurer’s conflicts of interest that may have impacted its full and fair adjudication of an employee benefit claim.The U.S. Supreme Court first expressed concern about the impact of benefit plan administrators’ conflicts of interest in Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Bruch, 489 U.S. 101 (1989). Subsequently, in Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. v. Glenn, 554 U.S. 105 (2008), the Supreme Court explicitly acknowledged the inherent …