Evans v. Employee Benefit Plan

OPINION OF THE COURT

RENDELL, Circuit Judge.

This case concerns the denial of Long Term Disability (“LTD”) benefits to the plaintiff, Lisa Evans, who worked as an environmental engineer with defendant Camp Dresser & McKee (“CDM”). Defendant Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (“MetLife”) administered CDM’s disability insurance plan (the “Plan”). Evans received Short Term Disability benefits after complaining of shortness of breath and receiving an initial diagnosis of asthma. MetLife denied her claim for LTD benefits on May 24, 2000, after Evans’s pulmonologist, Dr. Gross, reported that she was…