United States Eighth Circuit

In an ERISA action arising from a denial of plaintiff's claim for long term disability benefits under an employer-provided plan, a ruling awarding plaintiff benefits is remanded where the district court erred by failing to give the parties an opportunity to brief the issues of the merits of and the differences between two job databases, and the reasons that the plan administrator used one instead of the other in evaluating the claim.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/11/2008
• Published 09/11/2008

Judges

• MELLOY, Circuit Judge., Before LOKEN, Chief Judge, JOHN R. GIBSON and MELLOY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Byron Freeland, argued, Jeffrey O. Spillyards, on the briefs, Little Rock, AR, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Leon Marks, argued, Little Rock, AR, for appellee.