Legal Opinion
Yasko v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided June 30, 2014No. 12 C 02658PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
JOHN J. THARP, Jr., United States District Judge
Laura Yasko has sued Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company (“Reliance”) to recover accidental death benefits from an insurance policy issued to her husband, Dr. Alan Yasko. On August 19, 2010, Dr. Yasko died of a pulmonary embolism after traveling by air from Chicago to Mexico. Reliance denied Ms. Yasko’s claim for accidental death benefits as well as an appeal of that decision in 2011. Ms. Yasko then brought suit in federal court under the Employment Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. §§…
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