US Court of Appeal for the Eleventh Circuit Finds Unum Abused Discretion By Discounting a Beneficiary’s Cognitive Deficits from Medication in an ERISA Long-Term Disability Case

The U.S. Court of Appeal for the Eleventh Circuit recently reversed the decision of a federal district court affirming Unum Life Insurance Company of America’s (“Unum”) decision to terminate a former pharmacist’s long-term disability benefits. The plaintiff beneficiary in the case was employed as a pharmacist from 1996 until 2016, when she suffered an accident at work that injured her …