Legal Opinion
Byron Ingram v. Martin Marietta Long Term Disability Income Plan for Salaried Employees of Transferred Ge Operations, an Erisa Plan
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 4, 2001No. 99-55581PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:
Byron Ingram is a former employee of General Electric Corporation, where he received as one of his benefits a long term disability insurance plan under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”) administered by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (“MetLife”). Ingram stopped working in 1998 and claims that since that time he has been totally disabled within the meaning of the plan. When MetLife terminated his disability benefits in 1997, Ingram brought suit in district court under 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a)(1)(B). He now appeals the district court’s grant…
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