Legal Opinion
Funk v. Cigna Group Insurance
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided August 4, 2011No. 10-3936PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
JORDAN, Circuit Judge.
This case arises out of a decision by Connecticut General Life Insurance Company (“CIGNA”), as the third-party administrator of “The Lucent Technologies, Inc. Long Term Disability Plan for Management or LBA Employees” (the “Plan”), 1 to deny Alcatel-Lucent USA, Inc. (“Lucent”) employee Robert Funk’s claim for long-term disability benefits under the Plan. Funk challenged that decision in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey pursuant to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”). The District Court granted…
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