Legal Opinion
David Tillery and Kathy Tillery v. Hoffman Enclosures, Inc., a Minnesota Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 21, 2002No. 00-3805PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BYE, Circuit Judge.
David Tillery and his mother, Kathy Tillery, appeal the district court’s 1 grant of summary judgment upholding a plan administrator’s denial of medical benefits to David under Kathy’s employer’s self-funded employee welfare benefit plan. We affirm.
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On August 10, 1994, sixteen-year-old David Tillery was seriously injured in a motor vehicle accident. The accident left him a paraplegic and necessitated removal of 30 feet of intestine and resection of his bowel. In 1995, doctors referred him to the University of Minnesota where he was accepted as a candidate for experimental…
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