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Category: Long Term Disability
03 Oct 2019
Your ERISA Watch – Late Decision on Court-Ordered Remand of Disability Claim Results In De Novo Review
Today’s notable decision is a long-term disability case, Spears v. Liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston, et al., No. 3:11-CV-1807 (VLB), 2019 WL 4766253 (D. Conn. Sept. 30, 2019). Plaintiff Spears alleged that Liberty Life improperly denied her claim for…
09 Sep 2019
Your ERISA Watch – First Circuit Holds that Aetna Life Insurance Company Abused its Discretion in Applying Pre-existing Condition Exclusion to Malignant Melanoma
Should an employee’s disability caused by malignant melanoma be subject to a disability policy’s pre-existing condition exclusion where during an alleged “look-back” period the employee was referred to a dermatologist on suspicion of having basal-cell carcinoma? The First Circuit recently…
03 Sep 2019
Life Insurance Company of North America (Cigna) Improperly Denied Long-Term Disability Benefits
This week’s notable decision is Lapidus v. Life Insurance Company of North America, No. 4:18 CV 01291 JCH, 2019 WL 4089395 (E.D. Mo. Aug. 29, 2019), where the court found that the long-term disability claimant is entitled to benefits. Since…
29 Aug 2019
Happy 5th Birthday to ERISA Watch!
Today marks the five-year anniversary from the very first ERISA Watch newsletter that I sent out on August 29, 2014. If you’ve been a subscriber since the beginning, you have received over 250 ERISA Watch case summary emails from me…
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