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United States Seventh Circuit


Leger v. Tribune Co. Long Term Disability Benefit Plan, 08-1362

In an ERISA action for payment of benefits due, district court's grant of defendant's motion for summary judgment is reversed and remanded for further findings and explanation where defendant acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner in terminating plaintiff's benefits as it failed to consider plaintiff's complete medical history and rejected important aspects of the Functional Capacity Evaluation without providing adequate reasoning.

Appellate Information

  • Argued 10/28/2008
  • Decided 03/09/2009
  • Published 03/09/2009

Judges

  • RIPPLE, Circuit Judge., Before BAUER, RIPPLE and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

Court

  • United States Seventh Circuit

Counsel

  • For Appellant:
  • Mark D. Debofsky, Attorney (argued), Daley, Debofsky & Bryant, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

  • For Appellees:
  • Michael J. Smith, W. Sebastian von Schleicher (argued), Attorneys, Smith, von Schleicher & Associates, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.
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