Garvey v. Piper Rudnick LLP Long Term Disability Insurance Plan

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

NAN R. NOLAN, United States Magistrate Judge.

Plaintiff J. Kevin Garvey has filed suit against the Piper Rudnick LLP Long Term Disability Insurance Plan (the “Plan”) and the Plan’s insurer, Standard Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Stancorp Financial Group, Inc. (“Standard”), to recover disability benefits under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq. Currently before the court is Garvey’s motion to compel discovery relating to Standard’s possible conflict of interest in making a benefits determination in his ease. For the…