Legal Opinion
Sharp Electronics Corp. v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 18, 2009No. 08-2959PublishedCited by 197 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
From 1997 until April 2, 2002, Sandra Rudzinski worked for Sharp Electronics Corporation. As a full-time employee, she was entitled to participate in a long-term group disability plan (the “Plan”), which was underwritten by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (“MetLife”). The present controversy arose out of a lawsuit between Rudzinski and MetLife. Briefly, after Rudzinski stopped working for Sharp, she applied for a conversion policy with MetLife to preserve her long-term disability coverage. MetLife denied her application. Rudzinski responded with a suit in federal court…
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