Legal Opinion
Cohen v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 9, 2009No. Nos. 07-2071-cv(L), 07-2286-cv(XAP), 07-2290-cv(CON), 07-5710-cv(CON), 08-2334-cv(CON)PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
SUMMARY ORDER
Defendant-Appellant-Cross-Appellee Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (“MetLife”) appeals several decisions of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Laura Taylor Swain, /.), which, inter alia, found that MetLife’s decision to deny Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant Rachel Cohen’s application for long term disability (“LTD”) benefits based on an alleged “Pre-Existing Condition” was arbitrary and capricious. In this action, brought pursuant to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), the District Court granted summary…
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