Legal Opinion
Bernita Hammond v. Fidelity and Guaranty Life Insurance Company, a Maryland Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 11, 1992No. 91-1711PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KANNE, Circuit Judge.
For over fifteen years, Charles R. Hammond, a store manager, sexually harassed his female employees at the Ludlum Food Mart of Bushnell, Illinois. Fed up with this behavior, Ludlum’s management finally fired Hammond on November 1, 1985. He died by his own hand less than a year later. Then his wife Bernita Hammond brought this ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001 et seq.) action against Ludlum and the Fidelity and Guaranty Life Insurance Co. (Fidelity), claiming that she was still entitled to life insurance benefits under Ludlum’s group…
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