Disability Plan Properly Denied Benefits Related To Fibromyalgia, 6th Circuit Says

CINCINNATI - A disability insurer did not violate the Employee Retirement Income Security Act by denying benefits to a participant suffering from fibromyalgia for failure to provide objective evidence of functional limitations, the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed Oct. 10 in an unpublished opinion (Taylor Hunt v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, No. 13-1724, 6th Cir.; 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 19857).
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