Legal Opinion
The Sunbeam-Oster Company, Inc. Group Benefits Plan for Salaried and Non-Bargaining Hourly Employees v. Leonard Whitehurst, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 19, 1996No. 95-31269PublishedCited by 87 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WIENER, Circuit Judge:
Resolution of the principal issues presented by this appeal requires the construction and application of reimbursement and subro-gation provisions of the Plaintiff-Appellant Sunbeam-Oster Company, Inc. Group Benefits Plan for Salaried and Non Bargaining Hourly Employees (the Plan), a self-funded welfare benefit plan under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). 1 This litigation was spawned when Defendant-Appellee Leonard Whitehurst, Jr.—a plan beneficiary who had been seriously injured in a motor vehicle accident unrelated to his employment and…
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