PEREZ v. AETNA LIFE INS. CO.

No. 95-1111.

96 F.3d 813 (1996)

Benito T. PEREZ, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. AETNA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided September 23, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy A. O'Rourke, Hay & O'Rourke (argued and briefed), Lansing, MI, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Jeffrey V. Stuckey, Richard D. McNulty, Dickinson, Wright, Moon, Van Dusen & Freeman (argued and briefed), Lansing, MI, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before: JONES, BOGGS, and COLE, Circuit Judges.


BOGGS, Circuit Judge.

Benito T. Perez, Jr. appeals from the district court's grant of summary judgment to the Aetna Life Insurance Company (Aetna), on his claim under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). We resolve a split of authority among the district courts in the Sixth Circuit by joining those circuits holding that a de novo standard of review applies to both factual determinations and plan interpretation...

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