Case Name: Barbara BLANKENSHIP, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SMITHKLINE BEECHAM CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2007-07-12
Citations: 238 F. App'x 552
Docket Number: No. 06-13545
Parties: Barbara BLANKENSHIP, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SMITHKLINE BEECHAM CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee.
Judges: Before WILSON, PRYOR, and COX, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 238
Pages: 552–552

Head Matter:
Barbara BLANKENSHIP, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SMITHKLINE BEECHAM CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee.
No. 06-13545
Non-Argument Calendar.
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
July 12, 2007.
Paul Martin Sullivan, Jr., Paul Marting Sullivan, Jr., P.A., West Palm Beach, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
Karen H. Curtis, Mercer K. Clarke, Clarke Silverglate Campbell & Montgomery, Miami, FL, for Defendant-Appellee.
Before WILSON, PRYOR, and COX, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
The Plaintiff, Barbara Blankenship, appeals following the grant of summary judgment in favor of the Defendant, Smithkline Beecham Corporation.
Blankenship presents two arguments on this appeal. First, she argues that the district court abused its discretion in refusing to enforce the pretrial stipulation relative to reinstatement of benefits and erred in failing to order reinstatement of her benefits when remanding to the claims administrator. We reject these arguments for two reasons. First, the pretrial stipulation was ambiguous when applied to a remand order of this kind. Second, the district court did not act improperly in declining to "reinstate" benefits payable under the Plan's second-level definition of disability because neither the district court nor the claims administrator had determined that Blankenship was entitled to such benefits.
Blankenship's second argument on appeal is that the district court erred in granting summary judgment to Smithkline. We conclude that summary judgment was properly granted for the reasons stated in the district court's well-reasoned opinion. (R.2-98.)
AFFIRMED.