Legal Opinion
Glista v. Unum Life Insurance Co. of America
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 11, 2004No. 03-2494PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
Bernard Glista, who is in his mid-fifties, was diagnosed in January 2000 with Primary Lateral Sclerosis (PLS), a rare neurological disorder that arises in adults in mid to late life and causes progressive weakness in the muscles of the face, arms, and legs and eventual loss of basic motor functions such as speech and swallowing. Although long-term survival is possible, those afflicted can die within as few as three years from onset.
Glista, who had just changed jobs in the summer of 1999, filed a claim for long-term disability benefits with his new employer under its…
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