Joseph N. Glover v. South Central Bell Telephone Company

TATE, Circuit Judge:

In this removed. diversity action, the plaintiff Glover sues his former employer (“Bell”) to recover for total disability benefits under Bell’s private disability pension plan. The district court dismissed the suit. 492 F.Supp. 1032 (E.D.La. 1980). On appeal, Glover contends that the trial court erred as a matter of fact and law in upholding the employer’s benefit committee’s termination of total disability benefits, as well as in its allowing offset against contractual disability benefits to the amount of workmen’s compensation benefits paid under state law. We affirm,…