GORDON v. CIGNA CORP.

No. 17-1188.

890 F.3d 463 (2018)

Kimberly P. GORDON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CIGNA CORPORATION; Life Insurance Company of North America, Defendants-Appellees, and UCG Holdings LP; Oil Price Information Services, LLC, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: May 15, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Jonathan Tycko , TYCKO & ZAVAREEI LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellant. Christopher Joseph Boran , MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS, LLP, Chicago, Illinois, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Anna C. Haac , TYCKO & ZAVAREEI LLP, Washington, D.C.; Daniel S. Kozma , LAW OFFICE OF DANIEL S. KOZMA, Washington, D.C.; James E. Miller , Kolin C. Tang , SHEPHERD FINKELMAN MILLER & SHAH, LLP, Chester, Connecticut, for Appellant. Jeremy P. Blumenfeld , MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS LLP, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for Appellees.

Affirmed by published opinion. Judge Wynn wrote the opinion, in which Judge Agee and Judge Thacker joined.


Steven Gordon worked for Oil Price Information Services, Inc. and paid premiums on life insurance policies that totaled $300,000 in coverage. But when Steven Gordon died in January 2014, his insurer, The Life Insurance Company of North America ("LINA"), paid Steven's wife and beneficiary, Kimberly Gordon, only $150,000. The...

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