Thursday, September 18th, 2008
9th Cir: Long-Term Disability Rules on Eligibility and Remedy
The 9th Circuit has held that LTD eligibility is usually unrelated to the employee’s previous compensation level. It’s also held that a plan that arbitrarily terminates LTD benefits must pay benefits for the interval until the plan properly terminates the benefits, even if, on redetermination, it turns out that the employee wasn’t eligible for the benefits […]