Legal Opinion
Jerald Meyer v. Duluth Building Trades Welfare Fund
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 5, 2002No. 01-2819PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BEAM, Circuit Judge.
Appellant Jerald Meyer, a participant in the Duluth Building Trades Health and Welfare Fund (Fund), was denied benefits by the Fund for injuries he received at his spouse’s restaurant. He appeals from the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the Fund. We reverse.
I. BACKGROUND
On September 23, 1999, while measuring the side of his spouse’s restaurant, Meyer fell from a scaffold and incurred a serious brain injury, three broken ribs, a broken wrist, and injury to his neck vertebrae. His accident left him totally disabled and unable to return to his trade as…
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