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25 Aug, 2006 1:00 am
In Poniewierski v. Unum Life Assurance Company of
America, 2006 WL 2385045 (E.D. Mich. Aug. 17, 2006), an ERISA disability lawsuit, the federal district court held in favor of the
insurance carrier, Unum Life. The plaintiff, Mark
Poniewierski, sustained injuries at work while attempting to lift steel ... , finding that the short-term disability plan did not cover injuries caused by work-related injuries.
Poniewierski filed suit against Unum Life, arguing that he was entitled to long-term ...
15 May, 2008 5:07 am
... Plaintiffs filed a putative class action lawsuit against Unum Provident Corporation, Unum
Life Insurance Company of America, First Unum Life Insurance Company and Colonial Life ... . Unum Provident Corp., 530 F.Supp.2d 1121, 2008 WL 515916, *1 (S.D.N.Y. February 25, 2008). The policies underlying ... "substantially similar" and "provide
for the payment of benefits only in the event that an employee suffers a long-term disability and, consequently, contain language establishing
an elimination period." Id. ...
5 May 4:23 am
... Chronister v. Unum Life Insurance
Company of America, No. 07-3552 (8th Cir. 2009), the court ended over a dozen years of benefit claims
and ... financial conflict of interest (being both the administrator of the plan in question and the benefit payor), Unum's overall history of
biased claims administration (which the Supreme Court itself ... decision to deny a benefit claim should be overturned by a court, has been around for a long time. Clearly, Glenn weakens-if not ends-the argument advanced in certain ...
17 Aug 5:41 am
... Insurer's Decision To Deny Benefits In Holcomb v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America, No. 08-6183 (10th Cir. 2009), the plaintiff,
a participant in her employer's insured long-term disability plan (the "Plan"), sued ... an insurer may take steps and build the
administrative record to support its decision to deny benefits. In this case, the Plan gave the insurer the discretionary authority to determine eligibility for benefits and to
interpret the terms and provisions of the Plan. Therefore, the ...
1 Jan 12:32 pm
... , bad faith contract misinterpretations, and other unscrupulous tactics." Radford Trust v. First Unum Life Ins. Co., 321 F. Supp. 2d 226, 247 (D. Mass. ... they have been unfairly singled out. As an industry, there are very few long term disability insurers who don't use ERISA as a shield against unfair, and often ... . Cigna's unscrupulous disability claim denial tactics were
the subject of a recent series of stories on Good Morning America. As Professor Langbein so acutely observed in his article on ...
28 Aug, 2006 11:03 pm
... job as a materials manager for Johnson Controls, Inc. Holoubek engaged in a lengthy battle with Unum Life Insurance Company of America, the plan administrator, over his entitlement to benefits. ... suffer muscle spasm, dizziness, and headaches. Quoting Hawkins v. First Union
Corp. Long-Term Disability Plan, 326 F.3d 914, 918 ... past-due benefits and reinstate his ongoing benefits. The court dismissed
Unum's counterclaim to recover an alleged overpayment of benefits resulting from his receipt of Social ...
27 Aug, 2006 11:01 pm
James O'Rear, a 63 year-old former employee of Lockheed Martin, submitted a claim for long-term disability benefits under his employer's ERISA
plan. He had physical ... the internal appeals process, O'Rear sued the insurer. (The case caption identifies the defendant as "Unum
Life Insurance Company of America," but the opinion refers to the defendant as "Paul Revere Life ... information, O'Rear took no action." The
cite is O'Rear v. Unum Life Ins. Co. of America,
2006 WL 2457096 (W.D. La. Aug. 21, 2006).
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