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District Court Finds Sun Life Did Not Abuse Its Discretion in Denying ERISA Long Term Disability Benefit Claim for Claimant with Autoimmune Disorders

District Court Finds Sun Life Did Not Abuse Its Discretion in Denying ERISA Long Term Disability Benefit Claim for Claimant with Autoimmune Disorders

In Ziegler v. Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada, No. 4:22-CV-01115-SRC, 2024 WL 3874529 (E.D. Mo. Aug. 19, 2024), Missouri Eastern District Chief Judge Stephen R. Clark granted Sun Life’s…

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District Court Finds Insurer Committed Numerous Errors and Abused Its Discretion in Terminating Disability Benefits Based on An Improper Application of The Policy’s Mental Health Limitation

In Ehrlich v. Hartford Life and Accident Insurance Co., No. 20-CV-02284-JST, 2024 WL 3745008 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 8, 2024), on Rule 52 cross-motions for judgment, California Northern District Judge Jon…

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District Court Affirms Insurer’s Application of ERISA Disability Policy’s Pre-Existing Condition Exclusion

In Tunkle v. Reliastar Life Insurance Company, No. 2:23-CV-10-SPC-NPM, 2024 WL 3638011 (M.D. Fla. Aug. 2, 2024), on cross-motions for summary judgment, a Florida Middle District Judge granted Defendant Reliastar’s motion,…

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Third Circuit Reverses District Court, Finds Lincoln Financial Group Did Not Abuse Its Discretion When Terminating Long-Term Disability Benefits

In Hawks v. PNC Financial Services Group Inc, et al., No. 23-2636, 2024 WL 3664599 (3d Cir. Aug. 6, 2024), an unpublished opinion, the Third Circuit vacated and remanded the…

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District Court Grants Insurer’s Motion to Transfer Venue in ERISA Benefits Action Finding Significant Connection to Transferee District

In Cline v. Prudential Ins. Co. of Am., No. 23-CV-15091, 2024 WL 3455089 (N.D. Ill. July 18, 2024), Illinois Northern District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman, granted Defendant Prudential’s motion to…

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Eighth Circuit Affirms Award of Long-Term Disability Benefits Based on Determination that Plaintiff Was Disabled from Sedentary Work Due to her Physical Ailments

In Weyer v. Reliance Standard Life Ins. Co., No. 23-2862, __F.4th__, 2024 WL 3577374 (8th Cir. July 30, 2024), the Eighth Circuit considered Reliance Standard’s challenge of the district court’s…

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