Legal Opinion
Wright v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided May 26, 2009No. Civil Action 07-1808 (RBW)PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
WALTON, District Judge.
The plaintiff, Peter Wright, brings this action under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1132(a)(1)(B), (a)(3)(2006), against defendants Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, doing business as Met-Life Disability (“MetLife”), and Bearing-Point Inc. (“BearingPoint”) Long Term Disability Plan (“Plan”), 1 alleging that the defendants violated the ERISA by breaching the fiduciary duty they owed him under § 1132(a)(3) and wrongfully denying him benefit coverage under § 1132(a)(1)(B) when they terminated his long-term…
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