HAWKINS v. FIRST UNION CORP. LONG-TERM DIS. PLAN

No. 02-3100.

326 F.3d 914 (2003)

Mark C. HAWKINS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. FIRST UNION CORPORATION LONG-TERM DISABILITY PLAN, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 22, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew M. Plunkett (argued), Childress & ZDEB, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Thomas G. Hancuch (argued), Edward C. Jepson, Jr., Vedder, Price, Kaufman & Kammholz, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before POSNER, COFFEY, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

Mark Hawkins was denied long-term disability benefits by his employer's welfare plan, sued under ERISA, and now appeals from the grant of summary judgment to the plan. Hawkins was employed full time to supervise the processing, auditing, and (if necessary) rebilling of a class of invoices. The job required him to sit more or less all day at a computer, reading and typing. In 1993 he was diagnosed with...

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