Legal Opinion
Gaither v. Aetna Life Insurance
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided November 4, 2004No. 03-7029PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McCONNELL, Circuit Judge.
In the summer of 1999, Donald B. Gaither was suspended from employment because his employer determined that his medical condition — his use of narcotic painkillers — made him unable to perform his job. At the same time, his employer’s ERISA plan administrator denied him disability benefits because his medical condition did not make him unable to perform his job. The plan administrator defends on the essential ground that it did not know, and was under nó obligation to find out, why Mr. Gaither lost his job.
Until September 1999, Mr. Gaither worked for Monsanto…
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