Legal Opinion
Brandee K. Adams v. Continental Casualty
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 20, 2004No. 03-2213PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, Circuit Judge.
Brandee K. Adams and Jordan Adams appeal the district court’s 1 summary judgment for Continental Casualty Company (“Continental”) in the Adamses’s claim for accidental-death benefits recoverable under an Employment Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”) plan administered by Continental. We affirm.
I. Background
On April 29, 2000, Michael Adams 2 died while sports parachuting (skydiving). The death certificate indicated that Michael died as a result of suffocation due to á crushing injury to his larynx and trachea caused by a high-speed parachute landing on a hard-dirt…
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Adams v. Continental Casualty CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 2004