by Carrie J. Feit | Jan 20, 2010 | Archive
Yesterday, a Court out of Missouri found that Life Insurance Company of North America (LINA) was arbitrary and capricious in denying the Plaintiff’s long term disability claim due to an unreasonable misinterpretation and selective review of the medical evidence....
by Carrie J. Feit | Jan 15, 2010 | Archive
On January 14, 2010, the First Circuit upheld Liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston’s termination of a fibromyalgia claimant’s long term disability benefits based on multiple rounds of surveillance that showed sporadic activities over the course of several days....
by Carrie J. Feit | Jan 11, 2010 | Archive
A Regional Quality Insurance Nurse, responsible for ensuring that all nursing practice standards at multiple facilities met with state and federal guidelines, was denied disability benefits by Unum despite results of neuropsychological testing that showed gross...
by Carrie J. Feit | Jan 5, 2010 | Archive
The Ninth Circuit reversed a long-term disability denial by Hartford Life Insurance Company based on its “over-reliance” on surveillance in which it “strung together a laundry list of discrete activities over the course of four days” thereby suggesting that the...
by Carrie J. Feit | Dec 29, 2009 | Archive
Today, December 29, 2009, the Seventh Circuit remanded a case back to MetLife for further assessment of a short-term disability claim for failure to acknowledge objective evidence reported during the claimant’s Functional Capacity Evaluation (FCE), and other...
