Harriet Wilson v. The Standard Insurance Company

Harriet Wilson appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Standard Insurance Company on her ERISA claim for long term disability benefits. The grant of judgment against her was based on her failure to file her lawsuit within the three-year period prescribed in the disability policy. She filed thirty-four months after that period expired. She contends that the running of the three-year contractual limitations period should be equitably tolled for the thirty-four months that her lawsuit was late because Standard’s letter denying her claim did not give her notice that the…