Klebe v. Mitre Group Health Care Plan

OPINION

MESSITTE, District Judge.

Paul E. and Carol J. Klebe, both employed by MITRE Corporation, bring tMs ERISA action on behalf of their son John, challenging a demal of benefits under MITRE’s self-insured Group Health Plan (the Plan). See 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a)(1)(B). The benefits in question pertain to care provided John at Chestnut Lodge Hospital, a private psychiatric hospital in Rockville, Maryland. MITRE contends that John, who has been diagnosed as a chronic paranoid schizophrenic, has reached his $500,000 lifetime mental health treatment maximum under the Plan. The Klebes argue that…