Island Creek Coal Co. v. Wells

KELLER, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

In an agreed judgment to settle the parties’ pending lawsuit over disability benefits, Appellant Island Creek Coal Company (“Island Creek”) and its parent company, Appellant Occidental Petroleum Corporation (“Occidental”) agreed “to enroll and accept” Appellee in Occidental’s long-term disability (“LTD”) benefit plan “so long as the Plaintiff meets all [its] conditions, provisions, and exclusions.” The agreed judgment further provided “that the settlement of this matter by the Defendants does not act as a waiver of any of the conditions, provisions, or…