No. 22-6720
Angela Bakos v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America
IFP
Tags: benefits-suit civil-rights due-process employee-benefits erisa limitation-period notice notice-requirement procedural-requirement statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation
Latest Conference:
2023-04-14
Question Presented (from Petition)
Whether Respondent UNUM was required under the Employee Retirement
Income Security Act, 29 U.S.C. § 1001, et. seq., to provide Petitioner BAKOS with
actual, as opposed to constructive, notice that there was in existence a three-year
period of limitation within which suits for denial of benefits must be filed in court.
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether Respondent UNUM was required to provide Petitioner BAKOS with actual notice of the limitations period under ERISA
Docket Entries
2023-04-17
Petition DENIED.
2023-03-23
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 4/14/2023.
2023-03-09
Brief of respondent Unum Life Insurance Company of America in opposition filed.
2023-01-12
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due March 9, 2023)
Attorneys
Angela Bakos
William Robert McCracken — Petitioner
Unum Life Insurance Company
Nikole Marie Crow — Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP, Respondent