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BARRON v. UNUM LIFE INSURANCE CO. OF AMERICA

No. 01-1065.

260 F.3d 310 (2001)

Nancy Ross BARRON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNUM LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: August 6, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Stephen Mark Tilghman, Seidel, Baker & Tilghman, P.A., Salisbury, Maryland, for Plaintiff-Appellant. John Snowden Stanley, Jr., Semmes, Bowen & Semmes, Baltimore, Maryland, for Defendant-Appellee.

ON BRIEF: Edgar A. Baker, Jr., Seidel, Baker & Tilghman, P.A., Salisbury, MD, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Before: WILKINSON, Chief Judge, NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge, and Irene M. KEELEY, Chief United States District Judge for the Northern District of West Virginia, sitting by designation.

Reversed and remanded by published opinion. Judge NIEMEYER wrote the opinion, in which Chief Judge WILKINSON and Chief Judge KEELEY joined.

OPINION

NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:

In exchange for a lump-sum payment of long-term disability benefits, Nancy Ross Barron gave a general release to UNUM Life Insurance Company of America as administrator of her employee benefit plan. When Barron had a claim five years later against a different employee benefit...

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