Legal Opinion
Pens. Plan Guide P 23922q Juanita Yeager v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided July 8, 1996No. 95-5872PublishedCited by 223 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MILBURN, Circuit Judge.
Defendant Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company (“Reliance”) appeals the district court’s award of disability benefits to plaintiff Juanita Yeager in this action for improper denial of benefits under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq. On appeal, the issues are (1) whether the district court erred in applying a de novo standard of review to defendant’s decision to deny benefits, and (2) whether defendant’s decision to deny benefits to plaintiff should be reversed. For the reasons that follow, we reverse.
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2Cases cited9 opinions
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