Legal Opinion
Delroy R. Blaske v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 18, 1997No. 97-2006PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CONMY, District Judge.
I. Background
Mr.. Blaske was insured by UNUM Life Insurance Company with a. policy providing disability benefits. He filed a notice and proof of claim for benefits in February of 1995. The onset of the disability from a progressively disabling disease, primary scle-rosing cholangitis/ Crohn’s colitis, was stated by him to begin “10 / ’90 or 1 / ’91”.
The policy language reqüired the insured to give written notice within thirty days of the date the disability starts. It further provides that proof of claim must be given, at the latest, twenty one months after the onset of…
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