BYNUM v. CIGNA HEALTHCARE OF NORTH CAROLINA, INC.

No. 01-1705.

287 F.3d 305 (2002)

Suzanne BYNUM, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CIGNA HEALTHCARE OF NORTH CAROLINA, INCORPORATED, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 19, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Mark Stanton Thomas, Maupin, Taylor & Ellis, P.A., Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellant. Robert Edward Hoskins, Foster & Foster, L.L.P., Greenville, South Carolina, for Plaintiff-Appellee. ON BRIEF: Joanne J. Lambert, Maupin, Taylor & Ellis, P.A., Raleigh, North Carolina, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before WILLIAMS and KING, Circuit Judges, and CYNTHIA HOLCOMB HALL, Senior Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, sitting by designation.


Affirmed by published opinion. Judge KING wrote the opinion, in which Judge WILLIAMS and Senior Judge CYNTHIA HOLCOMB HALL concurred.

OPINION

KING, Circuit Judge.

Suzanne Bynum initiated this ERISA civil action in the District of South Carolina against CIGNA Healthcare of North Carolina, Incorporated ("CIGNA"), maintaining that CIGNA had improperly denied her infant daughter's claim for health benefits for treatment of a skull deformity. The district...

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