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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Disability plans Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines [Guidance Overview] Insurer Properly Denied Claim for LTD Benefits Where Beneficiary Was Not 'Disabled' Under the Plan [Guidance Overview] Discretionary Clauses in Disability Insurance Policies in California and Their Impact on ERISA Plans (PDF) [Guidance Overview] First Circuit Refines Its Standard of Review Analysis Based on Supreme Court's Glenn Decision [Guidance Overview] 1st Circuit Refines Benefits Denial Case Law [Guidance Overview] ERISA Applies to Tribal Disability Plan Covering Casino Employees Seventh Circuit Discusses 'Independent Medical Examinations' in a Footnote to Ruling [Guidance Overview] The Effect of the Americans with Disabilities Act on Health and Disability Plans (PDF) [Guidance Overview] The Impact of Disability on Non-Qualified Deferred Compensation Under Code Section 409A [Guidance Overview] No Voluntary Plan Exemption Where Employer Determined Eligibility and Assumed Administrative Role [Guidance Overview] Two More Circuits Change Their Standard of Review Analysis Based on Supreme Court's Glenn Decision [Guidance Overview] EEOC Warns Employers about ADA Impact of Health Assessments Executive Summaries of Market Surveys on the U.S. Group Disability Market, U.S. Group Life Market, and Absence Management [Guidance Overview] Discovery Under MetLife v. Glenn: First Circuit Decides Important Disability Case [Guidance Overview] Glenn Is Turning Point in Decade-Long Battle Over Disability Benefits [Guidance Overview] Court Uses High Court Decision to Resolve Disability Dispute [Guidance Overview] Court of Appeals Finds Sun Life Acted Arbitrarily and Capriciously in Disability Case [Guidance Overview] Citing ERISA Preemption, Sixth Circuit Dismisses State-Law Claims [Guidance Overview] Eighth Circuit Reverses District Court on Vesting Issue [Guidance Overview] Great-West Health Coverage Suit Sent Back for More Hearings [Guidance Overview] Recent Long-Term Disability Litigation Decisions [Guidance Overview] Court Orders CIGNA to Pay Six-Figure Attorney's Fees in ERISA Case [Guidance Overview] ERISA Insurer Entitled to Offset Settlement on 2nd Medical Condition [Guidance Overview] Judicial Development - Gertjejansen v. Kemper Ins. Co. [Guidance Overview] Eleventh Circuit Holds That ERISA Does Not Authorize Fee Award for 'Pre-Litigation Administrative Proceedings' Trends in Short-Term Disability Plan Design (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Eighth Circuit Requires Evaluation of Conflict Factor As a Tiebreaker [Guidance Overview] After the Finding of Conflict: How Should Conflicts of Interest Affect ERISA Judicial Review? [Guidance Overview] The Seventh Circuit Puts a Spin on Discretionary Review [Guidance Overview] Arbitration Agreement Upheld Despite Binding Arbitration and Cost-Sharing Provisions [Guidance Overview] Sixth Circuit Applies Met Life v. Glenn Factors to Overturn Diability Benefit Denial [Guidance Overview] Glenn Ruling Has Far-Reaching Effects on How Courts Treat Plaintiffs' Denied Requests for LTD Benefits [Guidance Overview] The Stimulus Bill and Other Congressional Action Create New Obligations for Benefit Plan Sponsors [Guidance Overview] District Court Holds That Procedural Conflict Results in Expanded Discovery Rights [Guidance Overview] Ninth Circuit Requires Application of Normal Summary Judgment Rules in Benefits Denial Review [Guidance Overview] Neglect of Treating Physicians' Opinions Leads to Decision for Plaintiff [Guidance Overview] Two More Federal Circuits Consider Impact of Glenn Decision on Standard of Review [Guidance Overview] More Confusion with Review of ERISA Denial of Benefits National Health Information Network Set to Launch, Sort Of [Guidance Overview] McCauley Case Perfect Example of What Supreme Court Had in Mind in the Glenn Case [Guidance Overview] Second Circuit Revises Standard of Review Pursuant to Glenn Holding DOL Approves Two Captive Benefits Proposals Captive Insurance Companies Offer Cost Savings for Disability, Life and Health Cost Risks [Guidance Overview] Despite Standard of Review Change, 2nd Circuit Rules Against Disability Denial [Guidance Overview] Appeals court rules against Unum in LTD dispute Worker Disability: A Growing Risk to Retirement Security (PDF) 4th Circuit Takes New Approach on Conflict of Interest Case Glenn ERISA Benefit Review Standard Starts to Negatively Impact Plaintiffs [Guidance Overview] Fourth Circuit Hands Down Post-Glenn Opinion on Standard of Review [Guidance Overview] Dual Role of Evaluating and Paying Benefits Claims Gives Rise to Conflict of Interest [Opinion] DOL Office of the Solicitor's Brief for Secretary of Labor as amicus curia (PDF) [Guidance Overview] The Conflict Between ERISA Overpayment Claims and Statutory Protection of SSDI Benefits Federal Railroad Retirement Disability Board Couldn't Say No Oral Argument Recap, AT&T v. Hulteen, Which Involves Service Credit for Pregnancy Leaves Taken in 70s, Which Affected Retirement Benefits Supreme Court Justices Hear Bias Case on Maternity, Pensions and Timing High Court Weighs How Maternity Leaves Affect Pensions High Court May Rule in Favor of AT&T on Pregnancy Leave [Guidance Overview] Claims Denial Faces Stricter Review Because Sponsor Failed to Meet DOL Electronic Delivery Requirements [Guidance Overview] Sixth Circuit Holds that Disabled Retirees Not Protected by Title I of the ADA [Guidance Overview] Supreme Court Preview: AT&T v. Hulteen Worker Absenteeism Shows Up in Bottom Line Important word about authorship: BenefitsLink® (BenefitsLink.com) provides this page for you, containing selected hypertext links to pages on the web that our editors think will be useful or interesting to you. But BenefitsLink is not the author or publisher of those linked pages (except as expressly indicated). 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