Legal Opinion
Sellers v. Zurich American Insurance
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 3, 2010No. 10-1448PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
On November 16, 2006, Anthony Sellers had surgery to remove a broken wire from his knee. Tragically, Mr. Sellers died nine days later from an acute pulmonary embolism with infarct, caused by his immobilization following the operation. The wire that necessitated the November 16 surgery had been inserted over a year earlier during a previous operation to repair Mr. Sellers’s patella tendon, which he tore while performing training exercises at work.
At issue in this case, which arises under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et…
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