Legal Opinion
Patti L. Butts v. Continental Casualty Company Michael Foods, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 9, 2004No. 03-1134PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BEAM, Circuit Judge.
Patti Butts appeals the district court’s 1 grant of summary judgment to Continental Casualty and her employer, Michael Foods, in this ERISA denial-of-benefits ease. We affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
Butts worked at Michael Foods as a poultry housekeeper. Her job consisted of standing and walking for up to four hours per day, lifting up to two pounds, carrying up to ten pounds, and pushing or pulling up to thirty pounds. Butts’s last day of work at Michael Foods was June 24, 2000.
On July 10, 2000, Butts underwent surgery to treat sphincter of Oddi dysfunction. She suffered…
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