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Sergei CHEPILKO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CIGNA GROUP INSURANCE, Defendant-Appellee.
    No. 12-3229-CV.
    United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
    Jan. 22, 2015.
    Sergei Chepilko, pro se, Brooklyn, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
    Michelle M. Arbitrio, Wilson, Elser Mos-kowitz Edelman & Dicker, LLP, White Plains, NY, for Defendant-Appellee.
    Present ROBERT A. KATZMANN, Chief Judge, AMALYA L. KEARSE and REENA RAGGI, Circuit Judges.
   SUMMARY ORDER

Appellant Sergei Chepilko, proceeding pro se, appeals the district court’s summary judgment ruling dismissing his action under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1461, as barred by the three-year statute of limitations set forth in his insurance policy from Cigna. We assume the parties’ familiarity with the underlying facts, the procedural history of the case, and the issues on appeal.

We review de novo a district court’s grant of summary judgment, with the view that “[sjummary judgment is appropriate only if the moving party shows that there are no genuine issues of material fact and that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.” Miller v. Wolpoff & Abramson, LLP, 321 F.3d 292, 300 (2d Cir.2003). We are required to resolve all ambiguities and draw all inferences in favor of the non-movant. Nationwide Life Ins. Co. v. Bankers Leasing Ass’n, Inc., 182 F.3d 157, 160 (2d Cir.1999). Summary judgment is appropriate “[wjhere the record taken as a whole could not lead a rational trier of fact to find for the non-moving party.” Matsushita Elec. Indus. Co., Ltd. v. Zenith Radio Carp., 475 U.S. 574, 587, 106 S.Ct. 1348, 89 L.Ed.2d 538 (1986).

The record reveals that Chepilko’s action was time barred. The Cigna insurance policy states plainly and unambiguously that “[n]o action ... will be brought to recover on the policy.... unless brought within 3 years ... after the time within which proof of loss is required by the policy.” S.A. 79; see Burke v. PriceWaterHouseCoopers LLP Long Term Disability Plan, 572 F.3d 76, 78 (2d Cir.2009) (applying statute of limitations from bene- fits plan to ERISA action). Here, Chepil-ko’s “Proof of Loss Date” was June 4, 2002, but he did not file his complaint until March 26, 2008, over five years later.

We have considered all of Chepilko’s remaining arguments and find them to be without merit. Accordingly, we AFFIRM the judgment of the district court.