by Carrie J. Feit | Dec 16, 2009 | Archive
Today, December 16, 2009, where total disability was not in question, the Ninth Circuit affirmed a district court opinion that found that MetLife did not abuse its discretion by concluding that Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy fell into the disability insurance policy’s...
by Carrie J. Feit | Dec 16, 2009 | Archive
On December 14, 2009, the Middle District of Florida found that a plan administrator’s “apparent lack of understanding and concern with its obligations under ERISA as plan administrator” along with its failure “to act in the best interest of the...
by Carrie J. Feit | Jan 4, 2009 | Archive
In a very enlightened and forthright opinion, Judge Acker, from the northern district of Alabama, recognized several common insurance company disability claim tactics as unlawful, or in the context of ERISA, arbitrary and capricious. With a more critical eye of...
