Donald Van Loo v. Cajun Operating Co.

HELENE N. WHITE, Circuit Judge.

This Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) action arises from the denial of a claim under Cajun Operating Company d/b/a Church’s Chicken’s (Church’s) employer-sponsored life-insurance plan in which Donna Van Loo (Van Loo), an in-house attorney for Church’s, participated. Van Loo elected and paid for life-insurance coverage offered through her employment, from 2007 until her death in 2013. Church’s, however, failed to obtain a required medical-underwriting form from Van Loo, resulting in its insurance provider’s denying benefits to plaintiffs,…