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Nature of Suit Code: 791
Nature of Suit: Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Cause of Action: 29:1132 E.R.I.S.A.: Employee Benefits

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United States District Court

Northern District of California

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

NANCY MAHAN,

Plaintiff,

v.

UNUM LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF 

AMERICA,

Defendant.

Case No. 13-cv-04803-VC 

ORDER DENYING MOTION FOR 

RECONSIDERATION

Re: Dkt. No. 143

Mahan has moved for reconsideration of this court's June 24, 2015 order granting summary 

judgment for the defendants. Mahan doesn't raise any arguments she couldn't have raised before. 

And in any event, the primary premise of her motion for reconsideration, namely, that Ninth 

Circuit law barred application of a contractual limitations provision like the one in this case, is 

incorrect. In Heimeshoff v. Hartford Life & Acc. Ins. Co., 134 S.Ct. 604, 610 (2013), the Supreme 

Court implied that Price v. Provident Life & Acc. Ins. Co, 2 F.3d 986 (1993) was the law of the 

Ninth Circuit until 2013, but that is not correct. See, e.g., Wetzel v. Lou Ehlers Cadillac Grp. 

Long Term Dis. Ins., 222 F.3d 643, 650 (9th Cir. 2000); Wetzel, 222 F.3d at 651 (Fletcher, W., 

concurring); Scharff v. Raytheon Co. Short Term Dis. Plan, 581 F.3d 899, 907 (9th Cir. 2009); 

Sousa ex rel. Will of Sousa v. Unilab Corp. Class II Members Grp. Benefit Plan (Non-Exempt), 

252 F.Supp.2d 1046, 1054-55 (E.D. Cal. 2002); Lee v. Metro. Life Ins. Co., 2015 WL 577078, at 

*2 (N.D. Cal. Feb. 11, 2015).

The motion is denied. The hearing scheduled for September 24, 2015 is vacated. 

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: August 24, 2015 

______________________________________

 VINCE CHHABRIA

 United States District Judge

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