Legal Opinion
Santana-Diaz v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 29, 2019No. 17-1428PPublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HOWARD, Chief Judge.
*693 This case concerns the denial of long-term disability ("LTD") benefits for Plaintiff-Appellant Dionisio Santana-Díaz ("Santana") under his employee welfare benefit plan ("Plan"). After the Plan's administrator, Defendant-Appellee Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. ("MetLife"), denied Santana's LTD benefits claim, Santana brought suit under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA"), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001 - 1461. Applying the parties' agreed-upon standard of review, the district court granted judgment on the administrative record to MetLife. For the…
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