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102586P.pdf 07/22/2011 Beverly River v. Edward D. Jones Co.
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 10-2586
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis
[PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Melloy, Circuit Judge, and
Miller, District Judge]
Civil case - ERISA. Plan administrator did not abuse its discretion in
denying claim for benefits under the policy's general exclusion for
intoxication where the coroner's toxicology report indicated the
deceased's blood alcohol content was .128%, a figure in excess of
Missouri's legal limit, at the time of his fatal accident.