United States Sixth Circuit

In an ERISA dispute arising from a denial of disability benefits for an employee, judgment for the plan administrator is affirmed where the employee, while suspended without pay, was not "actively at work" for purposes of being qualified to receive short-term disability benefits under his employer's ERISA plan.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/13/2007
• Published 02/13/2007

Judges

• Before SILER, CLAY, and BALDOCK, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ON BRIEF:  Louis P. Winner, Seiller Handmaker, Louisville, Kentucky, for Appellant.  G. Kennedy Hall, Jr., Augustus S. Herbert, Rebecca Grady Jennings, Middleton Reutlinger, Louisville, Kentucky, for Appellee.