Legal Opinion
Mark Stephan v. Unum Life Insurance Company Of
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 12, 2012No. 10-16840PublishedCited by 77 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by Judge BERZON; Dissent by Judge O’SCANNLAIN.
OPINION
BERZON, Circuit Judge:
In August 2007, just three months after he had begun a new job at Thomas Weisel Partners (“TWP”), Plaintiff-Appellant Mark Stephan (“Stephan”) had a bicycling accident that resulted in a spinal cord injury, rendering him quadriplegic and thus permanently disabled. Stephan was insured under TWP’s long-term disability insurance plan, underwritten and administered by Defendant-Appellee Unum Life Insurance Company (“Unum”). Stephan disputes Unum’s calculation of his predisability earnings, upon which his disability…
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