Published by The Pellegrin Firm January 29, 2020
In a ruling dated January 13, 2020, Judge Sarah Vance of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana sided with a claimant in a dispute over the applicability of a pre-existing condition exclusion to a long-term disability claim.
Published by The Pellegrin Firm January 12, 2020
In a decision dated December 31, 2019, a federal district court in the Northern District of Texas found for the surviving spouse in a life insurance dispute between a deceased man’s spouse and his sons.
Published by The Pellegrin Firm January 5, 2019
In a ruling dated December 27, 2019, a federal district court judge affirmed The Hartford’s decision to offset a disabled Atlas Air, Inc. employee’s long-term disability benefits with Social Security Retirement benefits.
Published by The Pellegrin Firm December 17, 2019
In a recent decision dated December 4, 2019, a federal district court in Maryland returned a favorable decision for a claimant seeking long-term disability benefits for her fibromyalgia.
Published by The Pellegrin Firm December 3, 2019
Posting on social media can be dangerous if you have filed or are thinking about filing a long-term disability claim. It is now standard operating procedure among long-term disability insurers to check a claimant’s social media history in the hopes of finding anything that may contradict a claimant’s allegations of disability.
Published by The Pellegrin Firm October 9, 2019
In a ruling issued October 1, 2019, the New Orleans-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit found for Securian Life Insurance Company in the case of a Texas teenager who shot himself in the head while hanging out with his friends
Published by The Pellegrin Firm October 6, 2019
An interesting March 22, 2018, decision from the New Orleans-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit found that it can be under Texas law. The court of appeals found the question to be close enough that the federal district court was wrong to grant summary judgment for the insurer.
Published by the Pellegrin Firm September 28, 2019
Two recent decisions went claimants’ way in preexisting condition denial cancer cases.
Published by The Pellegrin Firm September 17, 2019
On September 13, 2019, New Orleans federal judge Carl J. Barbier remanded a lawsuit filed by Crescent City Surgical Centre against health insurer Humana to Louisiana state court in Jefferson Parish. Crescent alleges that in 2011 Humana began paying less than what it agreed to pay for services on the Humana provider web portal.
Published by The Pellegrin Firm September 2, 2019
In an August 20, 2019, ruling out of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, Judge S. Maurice Hicks sided with Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in a dispute against a deceased man’s wife and children over life insurance benefits.