GORE v. EL PASO ENERGY CORP. LONG TERM DISABILITY PLAN

No. 05-6792.

477 F.3d 833 (2007)

John T. GORE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. EL PASO ENERGY CORPORATION LONG TERM DISABILITY PLAN and El Paso Energy Corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: February 23, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Bynum E. Tudor III, Tudor Law Firm P.C., Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellant. Mark W. Peters, Waller, Lansden, Dortch & Davis, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Bynum E. Tudor III, Tudor Law Firm P.C., Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellant. Mark W. Peters, Waller, Lansden, Dortch & Davis, Nashville, Tennessee, for Appellees.

Before GIBBONS and McKEAGUE, Circuit Judges; TARNOW, District Judge.


OPINION

ARTHUR J. TARNOW, District Judge.

Plaintiff, John T. Gore appeals the district court's grant of summary judgment in which all claims were dismissed in favor of the employer/ERISA plan administrator El Paso Energy Corporation ("El Paso") and ERISA plan manager/adjudicator Liberty Life Insurance Company of Boston ("Liberty").

Gore raises the following issues on appeal: (1) whether the district court erred in dismissing Gore's claim of breach...

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