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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

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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Third Circuit Finds ERISA Plan Abused Its Discretion Terminating Disability Benefits by Considering Wrong Job as Plaintiff’s Own Occupation

In Mullins v. Consol Energy, Inc. Long Term Disability Plan, No. 22-2930, __F.4th__, 2024 WL 3564555 (3d Cir. Mar. 22, 2024), an opinion issued on March 22, 2024, which the…

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District Court Finds Unum Wrongfully Terminated Disability Benefits for Attorney Disabled After Breast Cancer Treatment

In Wessberg v. UNUM Life Insurance Company of America, No. CV 22-94 (JRT/DLM), 2024 WL 3444044 (D. Minn. July 15, 2024), District Judge John R. Tunheim, found in favor of…

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Eleventh Circuit Affirms Doctor Entitled to Group Disability Benefits, Rejecting Insurer’s Interpretation of Covered Monthly Earnings

In Rosenberg, M.D. v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company, No. 23-13761, 2024 WL 3385678 (11th Cir. July 12, 2024), Defendant Reliance Standard appealed the district court’s grant of Plaintiff’s motion…

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District Court Finds Plaintiff Failed to Establish Ongoing Disability Due to Conditions Not Limited Under the Long-Term Disability Plan

In Penland v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, No. CV 8:21-3000-HMH, 2024 WL 3327366 (D.S.C. July 8, 2024), South Carolina District Judge Henry M Herlong, Jr., on remand from the Fourth Circuit,…

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District Court Finds Reliance Standard Abused Its Discretion in Terminating Disability Benefits by Failing to Consider Ongoing Cognitive Impairment Resulting from Post-Acute COVID Syndrome

In Ward v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company, No. CV SAG-23-2147, 2024 WL 3206709 (D. Md. June 21, 2024) Maryland District Judge Stephanie A. Gallagher granted judgment to Plaintiff in…

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