STANFORD v. CONTINENTAL CAS. CO.

No. 06-2006.

514 F.3d 354 (2008)

Robert R. STANFORD, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CONTINENTAL CASUALTY COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided January 23, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: John Richard Rittelmeyer, Hartzell & Whiteman, L.L.P., Raleigh, North Carolina, for Appellant. Debbie Weston Harden, Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, P.L.L.C., Charlotte, North Carolina, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Katherine T. Lange, Womble, Carlyle,

Sandridge & Rice, P.L.L.C., Charlotte, North Carolina, for Appellee.

Before WILKINSON, Circuit Judge, HAMILTON, Senior Circuit Judge, and T.S. ELLIS, III, Senior United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.


Affirmed by published opinion. Senior District Judge ELLIS wrote the majority opinion, in which Senior Judge HAMILTON joined. Judge WILKINSON wrote a dissenting opinion.

OPINION

ELLIS, Senior District Judge:

In this ERISA case, appellant Robert Stanford asks us to reverse appellee Continental Casualty Company's denial of long term disability benefits because, he argues, Continental's determination was unreasonable. The district court affirmed Continental...

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