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). (Source: LexisNexis® Mealey's™ Disability Insurance Legal News)
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Disability Insurer Properly Terminated Benefits, Federal Judge Determines
PHILADELPHIA - A Pennsylvania federal judge on Aug. 23 determined that a disability insurer's termination of long-term disability (LTD) benefits was proper because the claimant failed to prove that she was disabled under the plan's any-occupation standard and because the claimant collected the maximum amount of available benefits available under the plan's mental health limitation (Kristy M. Keller-Smith v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Co., No. 17-1549, E.D. Pa., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 144425). (Source: LexisNexis® Mealey's™ Disability Insurance Legal News)
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Claimant Was Not Disabled From Any Occupation, Federal Judge Determines
ALLENTOWN, Pa. - A disability insurer's termination of long-term disability benefits was not arbitrary and capricious because substantial evidence supports the insurer's determination that the claimant was not disabled from performing the duties of any gainful occupation, a Pennsylvania federal judge said Aug. 13 (Giovanna Reichard v. United of Omaha Life Insurance Co., No. 17-2885, E.D. Pa., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 136050). (Source: LexisNexis® Mealey's™ Disability Insurance Legal News)
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Minnesota Federal Judge Says Claims Against LTD Insurer Are Not Duplicative
MINNEAPOLIS - A Minnesota federal judge on Aug. 29 denied a disability insurer's motion for judgment on the pleadings after determining that a breach of fiduciary claim seeking attorney fees and health care costs as remedies for the breach is not duplicative of the breach of fiduciary claim seeking benefits under a long-term disability (LTD) plan (Michael J. Christoff v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America, No. 17-3512, D. Minn., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 147188). (Source: LexisNexis® Mealey's™ Disability Insurance Legal News)
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Disability Plan Is Ambiguous As To Exhaustion Requirement, Federal Judge Says
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - A Connecticut federal judge on Aug. 28 denied a disability insurer's motion to dismiss after determining that the disability plan does not include an express exhaustion provision and that it is possible for a plan participant to interpret the plan as not requiring exhaustion prior to filing suit (Annuziata Germana, et al. v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Co., No. 16-1611, D. Conn., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 146074). (Source: LexisNexis® Mealey's™ Disability Insurance Legal News)
Source: LexisNexis® Mealey's™ Disability Insurance Legal News - September 11, 2018 Category: Medical Law Source Type: news
