Legal Opinion
Rita Moreno Gallegos v. Mt. Sinai Medical Center and Unum Life Insurance Company of America
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 27, 2000No. 99-2022PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
Rita Moreno Gallegos was an employee of Mt. Sinai Medical Center (“Mt. Sinai”) who applied for employee welfare benefits with Mt. Sinai’s insurance carrier UNUM Life Insurance Company of America (“UNUM”). Her request for benefits was denied, and Gallegos filed suit, claiming that this denial violates the Employee Retirement Insurance Security Act (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.C. § 1001, et seq. The district court granted summary judgment to the defendants. For the reasons stated below, we affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
Gallegos was employed by Mt. Sinai as a marketing director from 1990 until…
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