Legal Opinion
Davis v. Kentucky Finance Cos. Retirement Plan
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided October 12, 1989No. 88-6067PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOGGS, Circuit Judge.
Misty Dawn Davis (Davis) appeals from the district court’s summary judgment denying her death benefits as her father’s beneficiary. Her father, Kenneth Davis, a former employee of Kentucky Finance *691Company, Inc. (KFC), was murdered by his wife. The dispute concerns whether the decedent still was employed by KFC at the time of his death. The district court denied Davis’s claim for death benefits, finding that the Retirement Committee (the Committee) which administers the KFC retirement plan was correct in deciding that Kenneth Davis was no longer an employee at the time of…
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