WITT v. METROPOLITAN LIFE INS. CO.

No. 14-11349.

772 F.3d 1269 (2014)

Don L. WITT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE CO., Shell Oil Long Term Disability Trust Plan, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

November 25, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph Kenneth Strawn, Jr. , Joshua Blake Sullivan , Henslee, Robertson, Strawn & Sullivan, LLC, Gadsden, AL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Scott Burnett Smith , Bradley, Arant, Boult, Cummings, LLP, Huntsville, AL, Summer A. Davis , Thomas Matthew Miller , Bradley, Arant, Boult, Cummings, LLP, Birmingham, AL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before HULL, MARCUS and DUBINA, Circuit Judges.


In this case, we must determine whether plaintiff Don Witt's lawsuit seeking to recover disability benefits allegedly due from May 1997 to the present is barred by the applicable statute of limitations and, if so, whether the defendants waived that statute-of-limitations defense. After careful review of the record and the briefs...

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