Marlowe Blake and Pam Blake v. Unionmutual Stock Life Ins. Co. Of America

Maintaining that additional compensation of $33,269 is due under a group health insurance policy, Marlowe and Pam Blake brought a civil action pursuant to 29 U.S. C.A. § 1132(a)(1)(B) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). 1 The district court held that the insurance company’s responsibility for Pam Blake’s medical bills, which were incurred for extensive psychiatric care related to a postpartum depression, a complication of pregnancy, was limited under the policy’s coverage of mental illness. The Blakes’ claim that postpartum depression is covered under “the…