Schwarz

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 LISA SCHWARZ, Case No. 19-cv-02370-EMC

Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING PLAINTIFF’S

v. MOTION TO REMAND

HARTFORD LIFE AND ACCIDENT Docket No.

INSURANCE COMPANY,

11 Defendant. 12 13 This action is a claim to review the denial of long term disability benefits under an employee benefit plan regulated by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”). Plaintiff Lisa Schwarz is a former employee of YP Holdings LLC (“YP”) who has suffered from recurring stage IIIC ovarian cancer and related complications for the last eight years. As a result of her condition, Ms. Schwarz began receiving long term disability benefits from Hartford Life and Accident Insurance Company (“Hartford”) in 2017. On August 30, 2018, however, Hartford denied Ms. Schwarz’s claim for benefits; it upheld this denial on appeal the following April. Ms. Schwarz now brings suit against Hartford and YP Holdings LLC Welfare Benefit Plan (“YP Plan”), seeking: (1) an…