Legal Opinion
Julie M. Winchester v. Prudential Life Insurance Company of America, and Life Insurance Company of North America
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided September 24, 1992No. 90-4201PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EBEL, Circuit Judge.
In this appeal, we address whether an insurance company providing a group accidental death and dismemberment insurance policy to an ERISA plan permissibly denied coverage to a plan participant who died of heart failure following a firefighting training exercise. To answer this question, we must consider (1) the standard under which we must review the insurance company’s actions, (2) the sweep of ERISA’s preemption section, and (3) the construction the Utah courts place upon certain terms in the insurance policy.
We hold that the district court correctly granted summary…
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