Claimant Failed To Show Insurer Acted In Bad Faith In Terminating LTD Benefits

DENVER - A Colorado federal judge on Aug. 29 granted a disability insurer's motion for summary judgment on a disability plan participant's claims for common-law bad faith and statutory bad faith after determining that the participant failed to prove that the insurer acted unreasonably in handling a claim for long-term disability benefits (Brenda Sandoval v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America, No. 17-644, D. Col., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 147184).
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