Legal Opinion
Saffon v. Wells Fargo & Co. Long Term Disability Plan
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 16, 2008No. 05-56824PublishedCited by 161 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
The opinion filed January 9, 2008, appearing at 511 F.3d 1206 (9th Cir.2008), is ordered amended as follows:
Page 1215, Column 2,
Line 38 After < disabled under the terms of the Plan.> insert a footnote stating:
<In its petition for rehearing, Wells Fargo claims that our precedents forbid the district court from hearing additional evidence. E.g., McKenzie v. General Telephone Co. of Cal., 41 F.3d 1310, 1316 (9th Cir.1994) (error for district court to hear additional evidence of disability not presented to plan administrator); Taft v. Equitable Life Assur. Soc’y, 9 F.3d 1469, 1472 (9th…
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