Legal Opinion
Vicki Jordan v. Northrop Grumman Corporation Welfare Benefit Plan Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 1, 2004No. 99-56346PublishedCited by 157 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge:
This case turns on whether the administrator of an ERISA disability plan abused her discretion.
Jordan worked as a senior administrative secretary for Northrop Grumman from 1984 to 1995. She described her job as “typing, filing, telephone, sitting, walking, standing, general administrative office procedures.” One of her fringe benefits was long term disability insurance under Northrop’s company plan for employees. In September 1995, at age 42, she made a written claim for disability benefits under the plan. She wrote that she had pain that interfered with performing…
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