Legal Opinion
George Wolfe v. J.C. Penney Company, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 22, 1983No. 82-2586PublishedCited by 148 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff, George Wolfe, a former employee of the defendant J.C. Penney Company (“Penney”), applied for benefits under Penney’s Long-Term Disability Benefit (“LTD”) Plan. The administrator of the LTD Plan, Prudential Insurance Company (“Prudential”), 1 denied Wolfe’s application because it found that Wolfe was not disabled within the meaning of the Plan. Wolfe contested this denial by bringing this action under section 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. § 1132. The district court overturned the decision denying…
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3Cited by148 opinions
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