In May of 2017, we discussed the case of Jesse Solomon v. Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL Player Retirement Plan, where the district court held that the NFL Plan was wrong and unreasonable when it denied Total and Permanent Disability ("TPD") benefits to Jesse Solomon, a...
Federal Circuit Court of Appeals Holds that a Return of Life Insurance Premiums Paid After the Death of an Insured is Insufficient When an Insured Continued to Pay Premiums with the Understanding there was Continued Life Insurance Coverage
In the recent case of McCravy v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 690 F.3d 176 (4th Cir. 2012), the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals determined that a return of life insurance premiums to Mrs. McCravy after her daughter's death was insufficient where Mrs. McCravy...
Liberty Life’s Wrongful Denial of Disability Benefits for Bipolar Disorder and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
In the case, Suson v. The PNC Financial Services Group, INC., No. 15-CV-10817, 2017 WL 3234809, at *1 (N.D. Ill. July 31, 2017), Liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston, acting as the Plan administrator for PNC's ERISA disability plan, denied long term disability...
Cigna Continues to Engage in Unreasonable Delay and Denial Tactics of Disability Insurance Claims, Including Alleging that Disabling Conditions are Pre-Existing, After Cigna was Forced to Overturn Denials Under Similar Circumstances
In 2003, Susan Kristoff was diagnosed with breast cancer. After undergoing treatment, it was determined that she was in full remission and cancer free. As a precautionary measure, she was placed on Tamoxifen to prevent the recurrence of cancer in the future. Later,...
MetLife was unreasonable to reduce insured’s disability benefit by pension funds rolled over into IRA
By Maggie Smith of :In a decision last month out of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Court found Metropolitan Life Insurance Company ("MetLife") was unreasonable to reduce Mr. Thomason's long-term disability benefits by pension funds...
