Complaint Seeks Finding That Insurer Wrongfully Offset Veterans’ Benefits

(October 26, 2016, 2:05 PM EDT) -- BOSTON — A U.S. Army veteran filed a class action suit on Oct. 25 in Massachusetts federal court against a disability insurer, alleging that the insurer wrongfully offset disability benefits payable under the insurer’s policy by disability benefits received from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs because the policy does not list veterans disability benefits as income eligible for an offset under the policy (Marco Martinez v. Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada, No. 16-12154, D. Mass.)....