Legal Opinion
Pannebecker v. Liberty Life Assur. Co. of Boston
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 18, 2008No. 06-16654PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:
In 1996, coronary artery disease forced Nancy Pannebecker to quit her lucrative job as a laboratory and department manager for Hughes Electronics Corporation. Pannebecker began receiving benefits under Hughes’s long-term disability plan (“Plan”), which was governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”). After paying benefits for over three years, Liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston (“Liberty”), the Plan’s administrator, denied continued benefits on the basis that Pannebecker could perform some sedentary work and was therefore not…
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