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Nature of Suit Code: 791
Nature of Suit: Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Cause of Action: 29:1001 E.R.I.S.A.: Employee Retirement

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE

MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA, NORTHERN DIVISION

KIMBERLY McCOY, )

)

 Plaintiff, )

) CIVIL ACTION NO.

 v. ) 2:15cv723-MHT

) (WO)

MALLINCKRODT 

PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.;

et al.,

)

)

)

)

 Defendants. )

 

OPINION

Plaintiff Kimberly McCoy filed this lawsuit against 

defendants Mallinckrodt Enterprises, LLC, Life 

Insurance Company of North America (“LINA”), and Cigna 

Corporation (“Cigna”) asserting that they improperly 

denied her claims for disability benefits in violation 

of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 

as amended, 29 U.S.C. § 1001, et seq. This lawsuit is 

now before the court on the recommendation of the 

United States Magistrate Judge that Cigna’s motion to 

dismiss be granted and LINA’s motion to dismiss denied. 

Also before the court are LINA’s objections to the 

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recommendation. There are no objections to the 

recommendation that Cigna’s motion to dismiss be 

granted. After an independent and de novo review of 

the record, the court concludes that LINA’s objections 

should be overruled and the magistrate judge’s 

recommendation adopted. LINA is, of course, free to 

make the arguments in its motion to dismiss again after 

discovery.

An appropriate judgment will be entered.

DONE, this the 14th day of April, 2016.

 /s/ Myron H. Thompson 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE

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