General Electric Co. v. Martin

PARK, Judge.

This appeal involves the right of the plaintiff-appellee, Hazel B. Martin, to disability benefits under a pension plan maintained by the defendant-appellant, General Electric Company. Mrs. Martin’s claim for disability benefits was denied by the pension board which administers the pension plan. After a full trial in circuit court, a jury returned a verdict that Mrs. Martin was disabled within the meaning of the pension plan and that the decision of the pension board denying her claim had been arbitrary, in bad faith or fraudulent. The circuit court entered a judgment that Mrs.…