Legal Opinion
Lijoi v. Continental Casualty Co.
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided February 13, 2006No. 01-CV-4536 (ILG)PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
GLASSER, District Judge.
INTRODUCTION
Since September 1996, Plaintiff Francis E. Lijoi has been totally disabled. He has continually provided evidence of his increasingly disabled condition to an insurance company that, after awarding him total disability benefits from December 1996 until August 1998, arbitrarily reversed its determination. For more than seven years, Continental has ignored the mounting evidence of Lijoi’s disability, choosing to litigate its denial of his benefits rather than accept the plain fact that he is unable to work.
Francis E. Lijoi, (“Plaintiff’ or…
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