Curtis v. Hartford Life & Accident Insurance

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

JEFFREY T. GILBERT, United States Magistrate Judge

Plaintiff Cindy Curtis (“Curtis”) filed this lawsuit under § 502(a)(1)(B) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a)(1)(B), seeking to recover long-term disability benefits under a plan that her former employer established through Defendant Hartford Life and Accident Insurance Company (“Hartford”). The parties have stipulated to a “trial on the papers” under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 52(a). See, e.g., Hess v. Hartford Life & Accident Ins. Co., 274 F.3d 456, 461 (7th…