Legal Opinion
Haley v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
District Court, S.D. Mississippi
Decided December 28, 2001No. CIV.A. 300CV127WSPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER GRANTING SUMMARY JUDGMENT
WINGATE, District Judge.
Before the court is the motion of the defendant Metropolitan Life Insurance Company for summary judgment filed pursuant to Rule 56(b) 1 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The plaintiff Alma S. Haley filed this lawsuit in state court to recover contractual, extra-contractual and punitive damages based on the defendant’s denial of her claim for long-term disability benefits under an Allstate Insurance Company Group Long Term Disability Plan (the “group plan”). The group plan itself was insured (or reinsured) by the defendant. The…
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- Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. BruchSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
- Shaw v. Delta Air Lines, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Pilot Life Insurance v. DedeauxSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- MacKey v. Lanier Collection Agency & Service, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1988
- Donovan v. DillinghamCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1982
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