Legal Opinion
Marilyn Anderson v. Procter & Gamble Company the Procter & Gamble Disability Benefit Plan
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided July 12, 2000No. 99-5800PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BOGGS, Circuit Judge.
This is an ERISA ease in which the Appellant, Marilyn Anderson, a beneficiary of the Appellee’s Disability Benefit Plan, seeks to recover for the cost of legal assistance during her administrative appeal to the Plan Trustees. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm the district court’s order denying Anderson’s request for fees.
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Procter & Gamble (P & G) hired Anderson on November 28, 1988, when she was twenty years old. In 1992, Anderson experienced numbness on the left side of her body, lost coordination of her left leg, and lost the ability to distinguish…
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