Legal Opinion
Pierce v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
District Court, D. New Hampshire
Decided March 5, 2004No. CIV. 03-435-JDPublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
DICLERICO, District Judge.
On August 20, 2003, Anne “Juni” Pierce filed suit against her insurer, MetLife, alleging that it had wrongfully stopped making its monthly disability benefit payments to her as of July 10,1999. Given the more than three years between these two dates, MetLife has moved to dismiss the action on statute of limitations grounds. Pierce objects under alternative theories: first, that MetLife’s cessation of its monthly benefit payment causes her claim to re-accrue each month the payment was withheld, and second, that MetLife’s lack of responsiveness to her…
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