Disability Insurance Lawsuit Stories

Massachusetts Court holds Prudential abused its discretion in denying LTD benefits to senior development and test engineer who suffered from post-concussion syndrome.

Arizona Court denied American General's Partial Summary Judgment Motion against psychiatrist who suffered from multiple medical debilitating conditions.

California Court Holds Principal Life erred in defining plaintiffs job as sedentary and orders it to pay long-term disability benefits.

Court finds Unum claimant entitled to continued disability benefits and Unum did not meet burden to invoke mental health limitation.

After a Court of Appeals ruling, a disabled former Walmart employee will now not be receiving Long Term Disability Benefits from Liberty Life as the Appeals Court finds that Liberty Life can rely upon the reviews of the consultants it hires.

Federal Court ruled in favor of Plaintiff finding her employee benefit plan was a governmental plan exempt from coverage under ERISA freeing her to file state claims.

A District Court in Massachusetts recently ruled against Aetna after Aetna denied a former Employee of Restoration Hardware Long Term Disability Benefits because Aetna believed it was a pre-existing condition under the terms of the policy. The court felt differently.

Florida District Court upholds Liberty's decision to deny claimants late request for an appeal.

Long term claimant denied benefits following questionable neuropsychological evaluation.

California Federal Court Orders Metropolitan Life Insurance Company to reinstate benefits to disabled analyst after judge determined that MetLife improperly applied limitation in policy limiting neuromusculoskeletal disabilities to 24 months.

Appellate Court upholds Standard’s termination of long-term disability benefits to Plaintiff, a sheetrock applicator, who was not disabled from working in “any occupation.”

Appeals Court upholds Virginia court's ruling that Hartford correctly terminated long term disability benefits to medical transcriptionist who had painful arm.

The 11th Circuit Appeals Court remanded to the New Mexico district court with instructions to evaluate whether plaintiff, who had a heart attack, had a pre-existing condition.

A California Federal Court ruled that an insured was disabled under her Prudential policy as she was unable to perform the cognitive duties of her job.

Michigan Court finds Cigna's termination of long term disability benefits to former flight attendant who suffered from lupus was arbitrary and capricious.

Federal appellate court in Illinois agrees with Paul Revere that Plaintiff is not totally disabled when he can perform three out of his four job duties.

Washington District Court overturns denial of benefits to former Boeing Employee.

Kansas Court remands to Sedgwick Claims Management Services with instructions to reevaluate Plaintiff’s disability claim using the correct definition of disability.

6th circuit Court of appeals overturns denial of benefits to claimant with EDS.

In July 2016, Kimberly Garner, suffering from urinary incontinence, left her job with Amazon, and filed a claim for long-term disability benefits with Amazon’s...