United States Fourth Circuit
Blackshear v. Reliance Standard Life Ins. Co., 06-2126
In suit involving claim for benefits under a group life insurance policy, summary judgment for defendant-insurer is reversed as: 1) defendant cannot deprive plaintiff of vested benefits based on the waiting period in the amended policy and, thus, its application of the "clerical errors" provision to arrive at such a result was an abuse of discretion; and 2) equitable reformation is not appropriate.
Appellate Information
- Decided 12/07/2007
- Published 12/07/2007
Judges
- Before NIEMEYER and TRAXLER, Circuit Judges, and SAMUEL G. WILSON, United States District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, sitting by designation.
Court
- United States Fourth Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellees:
- ARGUED: Jeffrey Stephen Miller, Jacksonville, North Carolina, for Appellant. Joshua Bachrach, Rawle & Henderson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for Appellee.