Nichols v. Reliance Standard Life Ins. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:
Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company ("Reliance") appeals a judgment granting Juanita Nichols past and future long-term disability ("LTD") benefits. We reverse and render judgment for Reliance.
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Nichols worked for Peco Foods, Inc. ("Peco"), at a chicken processing plant in Sebastopol, Mississippi, as a Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point ("HACCP") Coordinator. Her job routinely exposed her to temperatures around forty degrees. She stopped working on January 28, 2016, stating that she had developed Raynaud's phenomenon, a circulatory disorder that could…
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