James Seitz v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Merck & Co., Inc., Medical, Dental, and Long-Term Disability Program for Non-Union Employees

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that plaintiff “was physically unable to fulfill at least one material aspect of his job”
• distinguishing plans that define disability with reference to claimant’s own position from those that define it with reference to broader parameters, such as occupation in general
• rejecting arguments that plaintiff was not disabled because he could still do “some material aspects of his job” or because he could still do “all of the material aspects of his job, albeit to a limited degree”
• Claimant who could not sit for more than two hours but whose job required six hours of sitting was determined to be “physically unable to fulfil at least one material aspect of his job”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).