PHILLIPS v. LINCOLN NAT. LIFE INS. CO.

No. 90 C 0345.

774 F.Supp. 495 (1991)

Gordon B. PHILLIPS as guardian of James G. Phillips, Plaintiff, v. LINCOLN NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, an Indiana corporation, Defendant.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, E.D.

September 26, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen C. Voris and Andrew D. James, Burke, Wilson & McIlvaine, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff.

J. Robert Geiman, David Joseph Novotny, Thomas P. Boylan, and William A. Chittenden, III, Peterson & Ross, Chicago, Ill., for defendant.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

BRIAN BARNETT DUFF, District Judge.

The plaintiff, Gordon B. Phillips, as guardian for his son James G. Phillips, seeks to recover nearly $500,000 in insurance benefits that he claims have been wrongly withheld by the defendant, Lincoln National Life Insurance Company ("Lincoln"). Mr. Phillips has sued Lincoln pursuant to § 502(a)(1)(B) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA"), 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a)(1)(B...

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