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Court Finds Hartford Abused Its Discretion in Denying Attorney’s Long Term Disability Claim but Gives Hartford Second Bite at the Apple

A recent decision, O’Connell v. Hartford Life and Accident Insurance Company, No. 21-CV-10587-AK, 2023 WL 2633789 (D. Mass. Mar. 24, 2023), illustrates the great lengths an insurer will take to…

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Seventh Circuit Revives ERISA Breach of Fiduciary Duty Claims Against Northwestern University for Alleged Mismanagement of Retirement Plans

On remand from the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinion in Hughes v. Nw. Univ., 211 L. Ed. 2d 558, 142 S. Ct. 737 (2022), the Seventh Circuit in Hughes v. Nw.…

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District Court Finds That Paul Revere Improperly Reduced Plaintiff’s Lifetime Disability Benefits By Classifying Plaintiff’s Repetitive Stress Injury As An “Illness”

In Stein, M.D. v. Paul Revere Life Ins. Co., No. 21-3546, 2023 WL 2539004 (E.D. Pa. Mar. 16, 2023), Pennsylvania Eastern District Judge Juan R. Sanchez granted summary judgment to…

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District Court Affirms Hartford’s Denial of Long-Term Disability Benefits for Claimant with Sjogren’s Disease

In Snowden v. Hartford Life and Accident Insurance Company, No. CV 5:21-144-KKC, 2023 WL 2586132 (E.D. Ky. Mar. 21, 2023), Judge Karen K. Caldwell found that Hartford Life and Accident…

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Sixth Circuit Holds General Motors Did Not Violate ERISA When It Declined to Reinstate Employee Following Post-Termination Diagnosis of Brain Tumor

In Hrdlicka v. General Motors, LLC, No. 22-1328, __F.4th__, 2023 WL 2604691 (6th Cir. Mar. 23, 2023), Plaintiff-Appellant Haley Hrdlicka appealed the district court’s grant of summary judgment to Defendant-Appellee…

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Second Circuit: Hartford Did Not Abuse Its Discretion in Denying Long-Term Disability Benefits to Claimant Impaired by Meniere’s Disease

In Nall v. Hartford Life & Accident Ins. Co., No. 22-49, 2023 WL 2530456 (2d Cir. Mar. 16, 2023), the Second Circuit affirmed the district court’s grant of summary judgment…

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