Legal Opinion
Diane G. Melech v. Life Insurance Company of North America
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided January 6, 2014No. 12-14999PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:
I. A.
Diane Melech is the beneficiary of an employee welfare benefit plan provided by her.employer Hertz. The plan includes a disability insurance policy (the “Policy”) issued and administered by the Life Insurance Company of North America (“LINA”). LINA’s administration of the Policy is governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), 88 Stat. 829, 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1461. Melech stopped working at Hertz in May 2007, when her treating orthopedist took her off work on account of his diagnoses of degenerative disc disease in her cervical spine and…
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