Smith v. AEGON USA, LLC

OPINION

JAMES P. JONES, District Judge.

In this ERISA case in which the plaintiff seeks disability benefits from her employer’s benefit plan, I will enforce the plan’s forum selection clause over the plaintiffs objection and transfer the case to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Iowa.

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Marzetta Sue Smith, the plaintiff, filed this action challenging the decision of AE-GON USA, LCC (“AEGON”), the defendant, to deny her disability benefits under a disability insurance program provided through her employer, Monumental Life Insurance Company (“Monumental”). The insurance…