Legal Opinion
Lasser v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance
District Court, D. New Jersey
Decided June 13, 2001No. Civil Action 99-4131PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOLIN, District Judge.
OPINION
This matter was opened before the Court upon the complaint of plaintiff Dr. Stephen P. Lasser against defendant Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company (“Reliance”) claiming that plaintiff was wrongly denied disability benefits under an insurance policy maintained by his employer. Jurisdiction is established by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.C. § 1132. This Court denied summary judgment and made certain other rulings governing the litigation of this matter in an Opinion and Order reported as Lasser v. Reliance Standard Life Ins.…
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