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Ninth Circuit Finds Long Term Disability Policy Required Insurer to Pro-rate Bonus Payment Over Period It Was Earned

Neumiller v. Hartford Life and Accident Insurance Company, No. 22-35688, 2023 WL 4173022 (9th Cir. June 26, 2023) involves a dispute over the proper interpretation of a term in Hartford’s…

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District Court Transfers Venue of ERISA Action from Residence Forum of Participant’s Trustee to Residence Forum of Plan Participant

In Hammer v. JP Morgan Chase Long-Term Disability Benefit Plan, 2023 WL 4053801 (N.D. Cal. June 16, 2023), California Northern District Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler granted Defendants’ Moton to Transfer…

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Fourth Circuit Finds Company Did Not Violate ERISA When It Terminated 67 Employees Who Submitted Similar Medical Leave Forms Following Notice of Furlough

In Adkins v. CSX Transportation, Inc., No. 21-2051, __F.4th__, 2023 WL 4035811 (4th Cir. June 16, 2023), Plaintiffs-Appellants are several former employees of Defendant-Appellee CSX Transportation, Inc. (“CSXT”), who CSXT…

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District Court Adopts Interpretation of ERISA Plan Requiring First Unum to Pay Higher Amount of Long-Term Disability Benefits

In Glickman v. First Unum Life Insurance Company, No. 19-CV-5908 (VSB), 2023 WL 3868519 (S.D.N.Y. June 7, 2023), New York Southern District Judge Vernon S. Broderick granted judgment to Plaintiff,…

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Tenth Circuit Upholds Hartford’s Denial of Long-Term Disability Benefits and Finds Procedural Irregularities Do Not Alter Standard of Review

In Easter v. Hartford Life and Accident Insurance Company, No. 21-4106, 2023 WL 3994383 (10th Cir. June 14, 2023), an unpublished opinion, the Tenth Circuit affirmed the district court’s grant…

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District Court Finds Hartford Did Not Abuse Its Discretion in Denying LTD Benefits Because Claimant Could Perform the Same Occupation at Other Companies

In Artz v. Hartford Life & Accident Ins. Co., No. 21-CV-0391-BHL, 2023 WL 3752006 (E.D. Wis. June 1, 2023), Wisconsin Eastern District Judge Brett H. Ludwig granted judgment to Hartford…

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