Jessen v. Cigna Group Insurance

OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO REVERSE ADMINISTRATIVE DENIAL OF INSURANCE BENEFITS AND DENYING DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO AFFIRM ADMINISTRATOR’S DECISION

DAVID M. LAWSON, District Judge.

Kurt Jessen, a forty-four-year-old manager working for Hewlett Packard, died from a heroin overdose while on assignment for his employer in Melbourne, Australia. Hewlett Packard provided its employees with a life insurance policy underwritten by defendant Life Insurance Company of North America that paid benefits to a designated beneficiary in the event the employee dies as a result of an accident.…