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Arbitrary and Capricious Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) Disability Benefits

Whitcomb Selinsky, PC

Unveiling The Truth: The Battle For Long-Term Disability Benefits

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In the case of Frank Blankenship, a dispute arose over the denial of his long term disability benefits by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (MetLife), which is a provider of long term disability insurance....more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - The LHD/ERISA Advisor

The LHD/ERISA Advisor: Court Applies "Reasoned Approach" in Upholding Insurer's Denial of LTD Claim

In Creed v. Hartford Life & Acc. Ins. Co., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 17613, (S.D. Ohio February 4, 2020), the court applied a "reasoned explanation" approach to hold that the evidence supported an insurer's decision to deny an...more

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Choice-of-Law Plan Provision Enforced As A Matter of Federal Common Law

The Tenth Circuit recently concluded that, as a matter of federal common law, a choice-of-law provision in a long-term disability insurance policy, which was part of the plaintiff’s employer’s ERISA plan, must be enforced...more

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ERISA Plans: Part-time employee entitled to disability benefits

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In Van Steen v. Life Insurance Company N.A., the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the grant of long-term disability benefits to an employee working part-time....more

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Timing is Everything: Tenth Circuit Overturns Insurer’s Disability Decision as Arbitrary and Capricious

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Even when a claims administrator approves a claim for disability benefits, its job is not done. That principle was again demonstrated in the recent case Owings v. United of Omaha Life Insurance Co., No. 16-3128 (10th Cir....more

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The ERISA Litigation Newsletter - October 2016

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Editor's Overview - This month, we look at the implications of the two federal district court cases from California that applied the ban on discretionary clauses typically found in ERISA plans to self-insured plans. The...more

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