Legal Opinion
Stamp v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 30, 2008No. 07-1061PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
This case requires us to determine whether the plan administrator of an employee benefits plan governed by the Employees Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1461, may reasonably conclude that the insured, who was killed in a one-car collision with a tree while driving with a blood alcohol content (“BAC”) of three times the legal limit, did not die as a result of an “accident” for purposes of his Accidental Death and Dismemberment (“AD & D”) life insurance policies. After careful review of the developing federal common law under ERISA, we uphold the…
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