The Job Matters: California Court Awards ERISA Long-Term Disability Benefits After MetLife’s Paper Reviewers Ignored a Scientist’s Cognitive Demands
The Job Matters: California Court Awards ERISA Long-Term Disability Benefits After MetLife’s Paper Reviewers Ignored a Scientist’s Cognitive Demands
In Wong v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, No. 25-cv-10274-PCP, 2026 WL 3138805 (N.D. Cal. Oct. 20, 2026), United States District Judge P. Casey Pitts granted Plaintiff’s motion for judgment and…
When ERISA Lets Your Insurer Withhold Disability Benefits to Recoup a Social Security Overpayment: A New York Federal Court Upholds Hartford’s Offset
In Doolittle v. Hartford Life and Accident Insurance Company, No. 1:25-cv-00148 (BKS/CBF), 2026 WL 3135297 (N.D.N.Y. Oct. 20, 2026), Chief U.S. District Judge Brenda K. Sannes granted summary judgment to…
Does an ERISA Remand Revive the “Fiduciary Exception”? Federal Court Orders Disability Insurer to Log Attorney Communications About a Remanded Claim
In Collier v. Lincoln Life Assurance Company of Boston, No. 8:20-cv-00839-JVS-KESx, 2026 WL 3126569 (C.D. Cal. Oct. 5, 2026), a federal magistrate judge confronted a question that arises whenever an…
Use It or Lose It: Court Won’t Strike Guardian’s Declaration in an ERISA Preemption Dispute After the Claimant Sat Out Discovery
In Hannon v. Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, No. 25-13431-LTS, 2026 WL 3093200 (D. Mass. Oct. 16, 2026), a Massachusetts federal court confronted a recurring question in ERISA litigation:…
Can an ERISA Claimant Get Discovery Beyond the Administrative Record? Minnesota Court Permits Extra-Record Discovery on a Separately Pleaded Breach-of-Fiduciary-Duty Claim Against Unum
In Gibson v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America, No. 25-2711 (JWB/JFD), 2026 WL 2983259 (D. Minn. Oct. 5, 2026), a Minnesota federal court allowed an ERISA long-term disability claimant…
Does a Late ERISA Appeal Decision Cost the Insurer Deference? Court Reviews Hartford’s Long-Term Disability Denial De Novo and Vacates It
In Farley v. Hartford Life and Accident Insurance Company, No. 4:24-cv-00894-SEP, 2026 WL 2971836 (E.D. Mo. Sept. 30, 2026), the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri…
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