Legal Opinion
Nancy MARTIN, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. BLUE CROSS & BLUE SHIELD OF VIRGINIA, INC., Defendant-Appellant
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided June 23, 1997No. 96-1534PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Reversed by published opinion. Judge WILLIAMS wrote the opinion, in which Judge LUTTIG and Judge DUFFY joined.
OPINION
WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:
In this case, we consider Nancy Cornelius Martin’s claim under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), 29 U.S.C.A. § 1001-1461 (West 1985 & Supp. 1997), to obtain insurance benefits for the autologous bone marrow transplant procedure she underwent as treatment for her epithelial ovarian cancer. The magistrate judge 1 concluded that the summary plan description (SPD) issued by Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Virginia (Blue Cross) did not exclude…
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