Legal Opinion
Watson v. Deaconess Waltham Hospital
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 8, 2002No. 01-2133PublishedCited by 68 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
Larkin Watson, fifty-six years old and totally disabled due to a heart condition, is unemployed and not receiving Long Term Disability (LTD) benefits. 1 He claims that, at pertinent times when he would have been eligible for LTD coverage through his employer, he was never told of the eligibility. As a result, he made choices about the number of hours he worked, not understanding that a consequence of his choices was that he was no longer eligible for LTD coverage. By the time that Watson says he did learn of the LTD policy and submitted his application, that application…
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