Rajiv Bali v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association and Health Care Service Corporation

CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.

We review a decision of the district court granting summary judgment to defendants, who had refused the plaintiff’s request for disability and medical benefits. Because the district court’s holding hinged on the plaintiff’s repeated failure to comply with reasonable requests for medical documentation, we affirm. However, were the central issue whether benefits were rightly refused based on the medical documentation available, a quite different result might be indicated.

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The plaintiff, Rajiv Bali, was employed from January 1980 through March 1982 as an auditor for Health…