Legal Opinion
Kimberly Gordon v. Cigna Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided May 15, 2018No. 17-1188PublishedCited by 160 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WYNN, Circuit Judge:
Steven Gordon worked for Oil Price Information Services, Inc. and paid premiums on life insurance policies that totaled $300,000 in coverage. But when Steven Gordon died in January 2014, his insurer, The Life Insurance Company of North America ("LINA"), paid Steven's wife and beneficiary, Kimberly Gordon, only $150,000. The reason, LINA claimed, was because Steven Gordon had only been approved for $150,000 in coverage-not for the full $300,000 in coverage he had been paying for. When Kimberly Gordon sued for the difference between the two amounts, the district court…
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