Legal Opinion
Mark C. Hawkins v. First Union Corporation Long-Term Disability Plan
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 22, 2003No. 02-3100PublishedCited by 162 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Mark Hawkins was denied long-term disability benefits by his employer’s wel fare plan, sued under ERISA, and now appeals from the grant of summary judgment to the plan. Hawkins was employed full time to supervise the processing, auditing, and (if necessary) rebilling of a class of invoices. The job required him to sit more or less all day at a computer, reading and typing. In 1993 he was diagnosed with fibromyalgia, and since 1996 he has been treated for this condition by Dr. Robert Katz, a rheumatologist. In 2000 he stopped working and applied for total-disability…
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