Hubert Barbaree v. Independent Life and Accident Insurance Company
This text of 481 F.2d 1280 (Hubert Barbaree v. Independent Life and Accident Insurance Company) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
This is a suit for declaratory relief to determine the plaintiff’s rights to disability benefits under an agreement between the plaintiff and the defendant, his former employer, and for the recovery of benefits withheld under that agreement. The district court found that the defendant’s determination that the plaintiff was ineligible for benefits was arbitrary, fraudulent, or made in bad faith, a finding which is necessary to establishing liability under a benefit plan of the kind in question here. See Mathews v. Swift & Co., 5 Cir. 1972, 465 F.2d 814. Upon a review of the record, we are unable to say that the district court’s findings were clearly erroneous, and accordingly we affirm the judgment for the plaintiff.
Affirmed.
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