Legal Opinion
Karen Brake v. Hutchinson Technology Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 29, 2014No. 13-3421PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BEAM, Circuit Judge.
Karen Brake appeals the district court’s 1 adverse grant of summary judgment in favor of her employer’s group disability plan in this Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001 et seq., (ERISA) denial-of-enhanced benefits case. We affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
In 1988, Brake began working at Hutchinson Technology Incorporated (Hutchinson) in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2000, but continued to work for Hutchinson until 2008. Hutchinson, which was based out of Minnesota, 2 provided a group disability insurance…
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