Legal Opinion
Burroughs v. Bellsouth Telecommunications, Inc.
District Court, N.D. Alabama
Decided July 21, 2006No. Civil Action 01-AR-1863-MPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
ACKER, District Judge.
This case was brought five years ago by Deloris Burroughs (“Burroughs”) against her former employer, BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc. (“BST”), and another defendant called “Long Term Disability Plan for Salaried Employees”, which, in function, was nothing but BST, the plan sponsor by another name. Burroughs invoked 29 U.S.C. § 1132, the enforcement provision of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), and claimed that she had been wrongfully denied long-term disability (“LTD”) benefits.
At a much earlier juncture in the case, the…
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