Legal Opinion
Don Birdsell v. United Parcel Service of America, Inc. UPS Health and Welfare Plan Aetna Life and Casualty Company
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided October 28, 1996No. 95-4002PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.
Donald Birdsell appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of United Parcel Service of America, Inc., (UPS), UPS Health and Welfare Plan (the plan), and Aetna Life & Casualty Company (Aetna), in his action brought pursuant to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001 et seq. (ERISA). We affirm.
I
As an employee of UPS, Birdsell is a participant in the plan, which is an ERISA-covered employee welfare benefit plan. See 29 U.S.C. § 1002(1). The day-to-day operations of the plan are managed by Aetna as the claim administrator;…
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