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Benefits in the News > By Subject > Disability plans Now Viewing Recent Headlines View Excerpts and Recent Headlines [Guidance Overview] Florida Retirement System Classification As 'Special Risk' Not Necessary to Invoke Heart/Lung Presumption, According to District Court Disability, Earnings, and Divorce [Guidance Overview] ERISA Plan Documents Time Limitations Are Enforceable Work Ability and the Social Insurance Safety Net in the Years Prior to Retirement [Guidance Overview] ERISA Can Govern Individual Disability Insurance Policies in an Employment Setting [Guidance Overview] Seventh Circuit Holds Disability Benefits Claim Incompatible With ADA Claims [Guidance Overview] Insurer May Consider Relevant Nonmedical Information in Deciding Disability Claim, According to Court [Guidance Overview] First Circuit Finds Plan Language Adequate for Delegation of ERISA Fiduciary's Authority [Guidance Overview] Ninth Circuit on Disclosure of Contractual Time Limitations for Commencing Benefits Lawsuits (PDF) [Guidance Overview] ERISA Section 510: The Setting Is Ripe For Claims New Oversight Has Not Cut Approvals of L.I.R.R. Disability Claims [Guidance Overview] SPD Limit on Court Challenges Was Clearly Enough Displayed, 9th Circuit Rules [Guidance Overview] Broad Scope of 'Disability' Reflected under New ADA Regulations [Guidance Overview] Tenth Circuit Notes Circuit Split on Contractual Limitations Periods National Compensation Survey: Employee Benefits in the United States, March 2009 [Guidance Overview] EEOC Expands ADA's Definition of 'Disability' (PDF) [Official Guidance] From EBSA: 45 Frequently Asked Questions About the EFAST2 All-Electronic Filing System [Guidance Overview] EEOC Issues Proposed ADA Regulations and Other Guidance About Disabilities, Major Life Activities, Impairments and More [Guidance Overview] Summary Plan Description and Denial Letters Adequately Disclosed One-Year Limitations Period [Guidance Overview] A Plan Administrator/Sponsor's Guide to Diminishing the Impact of a Conflict of Interest (PDF) [Opinion] Structural Conflicts of Interest After Metropolitan Life [Guidance Overview] Seventh Circuit Finds Conflict Factor Insignificant in Judicial Review [Guidance Overview] File Review of Medical Evidence After Metlife v. Glenn - A New Preference for Treating Physician Opinions? [Guidance Overview] Denmark Opinion Influences Narrow Post-Glenn Discovery in Judicial Review Work Disability, Work, and Justification Bias in Europe and the U.S. [Guidance Overview] Ninth Circuit Rejects Application of 'Reasonable Expectations' Doctrine to Self Funded ERISA Plans [Guidance Overview] SPD Passes 9th Circuit Scrutiny in Benefits Denial Case ERISA Benefits Litigation Article Discusses Effect of Met Life v. Glenn [Guidance Overview] Sixth Circuit Ruling May Signal Prospects for Accelerating Limitations Period on Benefits Claims (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Employee's Letter in Response to Insurer's Decision to Close Claim Was Not an Appeal [Guidance Overview] Two Seventh Circuit Disability Cases Illustrate Glenn Conflict of Interest Analysis [Official Guidance] DOL Begins to Approve EFAST2 Software Vendors for 2009 Form 5500 [Guidance Overview] Seventh Circuit Rejects 'Multi-Factored' Approach in Evaluating Conflict in Vesting Dispute [Guidance Overview] Insurer Improperly Denied Claim for LTD Benefits Based on Plan's Preexisting Condition Exclusion [Guidance Overview] SPD Disclaimer Does Not Cure Conflict in Plan Documents Regarding Grant of Discretionary Authority [Guidance Overview] No Payment for Employee Who Died Before Application Was Received [Guidance Overview] Seventh Circuit Hands Down Another Post-Glenn 'Tie Breaker' Decision [Guidance Overview] Third Circuit Takes Expansive View of Preexisting Condition Exclusion [Guidance Overview] ERISA Litigation Newsletter for August 2009 from Proskauer Rose (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Court Finds That LTD Plan Subject to ERISA and Addresses Various Rules Regarding Disability Claim Decisionmaking [Guidance Overview] Second Circuit Warns Plan Administrators Making Disability Determinations [Guidance Overview] District Court Requires Formal Inquiry Before ERISA Section 510 Retaliation Claim [Guidance Overview] Sixth Circuit Rules That a Program of Insured Benefits to Which an Employer Pays the Premiums for at Least One Employee Is Subject to ERISA As to All Employees [Guidance Overview] ERISA-Seventh Circuit Holds That Letters Denying a Claim for Disability Benefits Without Refuting Contrary Evidence Were Not Sufficient to Support Summary Judgment [Guidance Overview] Sixth Circuit Opines on ERISA 'Safe Harbor' Exemption [Guidance Overview] Court Enforces Plan-Imposed Limitations Period for Filing Benefit Lawsuit [Guidance Overview] Does MetLife v. Glenn's 'Structural Conflict' Holding Apply When Employee Benefits Are Funded from a Trust? (PDF) [Guidance Overview] Fifth Circuit Applies MetLife v. Glenn to Trust-Funded Disability Plan Benefit Denial [Guidance Overview] Benefit Payments Made from Employer's Zero-Balance Account Did Not Cause STD Plan to Be an ERISA Plan [Guidance Overview] Termination of Plan Coverage Was an Adverse Benefit Determination [Guidance Overview] EEOC Staff Members Provide Informal Views on Health Risk Assessments, ADA, and Other Benefit-Related Issues [Guidance Overview] Second Circuit Upholds Three-Year Limitation Period in Plan Document [Guidance Overview] Court Requires Production of Claims Handling Manuals Used in Benefits Denial [Guidance Overview] First Circuit Requires Abstention Where State Proceedings Have Begun [Guidance Overview] Notice of Denial on Appeal Faxed to Participant's Attorney Met Delivery Requirements in DOL Regulations [Guidance Overview] 'Independent' May Replace 'de Novo' to Describe Court's Role [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 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. 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