Rambo

MEMORANDUM **

Brenda Rambo sought judicial review of the denial of her claim for disability benefits by the administrator of the Delta Family Care Disability and Survivorship Plan (the Plan), a private employee benefits plan governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. The district court granted summary judgment against Rambo, and this timely appeal followed. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291 , and we affirm.

We review the district court’s grant of summary judgment de novo. McKenzie v. Gen. Tel. Co., 41 F.3d 1310, 1314 (9th Cir.1994). The district court determined that it was required by collateral estoppel to review the decision of the Plan’s administrator only for abuse of discretion. Rambo has not challenged this collateral estoppel ruling on appeal, so we likewise review the decision “of the Plan’s administrator only for abuse of discretion.

The district court did not err by failing to require the Plan’s administrator *581 to consider the combined effects of Rambo’s illnesses. The district court properly concluded that its review was limited to the evidence that was before the administrator when Rambo’s benefits were denied. Taft v. Equitable Life…