GUTHRIE v. NATIONAL RURAL ELEC. COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION LONG-TERM DISABILITY PLAN

No. 06-1410.

509 F.3d 644 (2007)

Callie D. GUTHRIE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NATIONAL RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION LONG-TERM DISABILITY PLAN; Cooperative Benefit Administrators, Incorporated, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: December 11, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Andrew O. Whiteman, Hartzell & Whiteman, L.L.P., Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellant. John Jay Range, Hunton & Williams, Washington, D.C., for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Elena E. Ellison, Hunton & Williams, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellees.

Before KING and GREGORY, Circuit Judges, and SAMUEL G. WILSON, United States District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, sitting by designation.


Reversed and remanded with instructions by published opinion. Judge GREGORY wrote the opinion, in which Judge KING and Judge WILSON joined.

OPINION

GREGORY, Circuit Judge:

Callie D. Guthrie ("Guthrie") was denied long-term disability benefits ("LTD benefits") by her employee benefit plan. She brought suit against Cooperative Benefit Administrators, Inc. ("CBA") under the Employee Retirement Income Security...

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