Legal Opinion
Cheney v. Standard Insurance
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 27, 2016No. 15-1794PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Chief Judge.
Carole Cheney was an attorney at Kirkland & Ellis, LLP (Kirkland) for approximately 20 years. She became a partner at the firm in 1997. She suffered from a spinal disease that first led her to seek accommodations in 1994, and ultimately resulted in a three-level anterior cervical discectomy and fusion and removal of her C5 vertebra in 2012.
Although Cheney had managed to work for many years despite her condition, by 2012 she had had enough, and so she submitted a claim for long-term disability benefits in July 2012. Standard Insurance Company (“Standard”)1, Kirkland’s…
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