Denial Of Disability Benefits Was Abuse Of Discretion, Federal Judge Says

JACKSON, Miss. - Noting that a disability insurer engaged in a "decades-long pattern of arbitrary claim denials and other misdeeds," a Mississippi federal judge on June 29 determined that the insurer's denial of benefits to a claimant was an abuse of discretion because the denial was unsupported by the evidence (Juanita Nichols v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Co., No. 17-42, S.D. Miss., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 109526).
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