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    This document summarizes a United States Court of Appeals case in which Eva Lynn Blair appealed a district court's orders granting summary judgment to defendants and denying her motion to reconsider. The Court of Appeals affirmed the district court's rulings, finding that Blair's outside work for pay terminated her entitlement to long-term disability benefits from her former employer's ERISA plan, as reviewed under the appropriate standards of review. The court dispensed with oral argument as the facts and legal issues were adequately presented.

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    This document summarizes a United States Court of Appeals case in which Eva Lynn Blair appealed a district court's orders granting summary judgment to defendants and denying her motion to reconsider. The Court of Appeals affirmed the district court's rulings, finding that Blair's outside work for pay terminated her entitlement to long-term disability benefits from her former employer's ERISA plan, as reviewed under the appropriate standards of review. The court dispensed with oral argument as the facts and legal issues were adequately presented.

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    UNPUBLISHED

    UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS


    FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT

    No. 11-1958

    EVA LYNN BLAIR,


    Plaintiff - Appellant,
    v.
    NATIONAL CITY MORTGAGE CORPORATION WELFARE BENEFITS PLAN;
    LIBERTY LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF BOSTON, a/k/a Liberty
    Mutual Group,
    Defendants - Appellees.

    Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of
    Maryland, at Greenbelt.
    Alexander Williams, Jr., District
    Judge. (8:09-cv-00906-AW)

    Submitted:

    April 19, 2012

    Decided:

    May 1, 2012

    Before KING, SHEDD, and AGEE, Circuit Judges.

    Affirmed by unpublished per curiam opinion.

    Denise M. Clark, Julia Roumm, CLARK LAW GROUP, PLLC, Washington,


    D.C., for Appellant.
    Gina D. Wodarski, EDWARDS WILDMAN PALMER
    LLP, Boston, Massachusetts; Fiona W. Ong, SHAWE & ROSENTHAL,
    LLP, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellees.

    Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit.

    PER CURIAM:
    Eva

    Lynn

    Blair

    appeals

    the

    district

    courts

    orders

    granting summary judgment to Defendants in her civil action,


    and

    denying

    59(e).

    her

    motion

    to

    reconsider

    under

    Fed.

    R.

    Civ.

    P.

    Our review of the record reveals that Blairs outside

    work for pay understandably terminated her entitlement to the


    long-term disability benefits she had been receiving from her
    former employers welfare benefit plan, which was covered by the
    Employee

    Retirement

    Income

    Security

    Act

    (ERISA).

    reviewed the record and find no reversible error.

    We

    have

    See generally

    Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Bruch, 489 U.S. 101, 115 (1989)
    (providing de novo review for denial of ERISA benefits, absent a
    grant

    of

    discretion

    to

    administrator

    in

    contested

    benefits

    plan); Bogart v. Chappell, 396 F.3d 548, 555 (4th Cir. 2005)
    (noting that Rule 59(e) motions are reviewed for an abuse of
    discretion).

    Accordingly, we affirm for the reasons stated by

    the district court.


    Benefits

    Plan,

    No.

    Sept. 2, 2011).
    facts

    and

    materials

    legal
    before

    Blair v. Natl City Mortg. Corp. Welfare


    8:09-cv-00906-AW

    (D.

    Md.

    June

    20,

    2011

    &

    We dispense with oral argument because the


    contentions
    the

    court

    are

    adequately

    and

    argument

    presented

    would

    not

    in

    the

    aid

    the

    decisional process.
    AFFIRMED

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