Legal Opinion
Gutta v. Standard Select Trust Insurance Plans
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 26, 2008No. 06-3708PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Circuit Judge.
Dr. Gandhi Gutta, a laparoscopic surgeon, suffers from a variety of physical ailments. In August of 2000, he came to the conclusion that he could no longer work in his chosen profession and filed for disability benefits under a group policy with Standard Select Trust Insurance Plans (Standard). Gutta received disability benefits from Standard for two years. At that point, in order to be eligible for continuing benefits under the plan, he had to show not just that he was unable to perform his own occupation, but that he was unable to perform any gainful occupation for which…
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