Disability Plan Administrator Must Address Treating Doctor’s Opinion, Judge Says

(March 2, 2018, 2:09 PM EST) -- YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — An Ohio federal judge on Feb. 28 remanded a long-term disability (LTD) claim to a plan administrator after determining that the plan administrator acted arbitrarily and capriciously by failing to consider the treating physician’s opinion that the claimant was disabled as a result of emotional lability following the death of her son (Shelley Westfall v. Liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston, No. 16-2921, N.D. Ohio, 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 32641)....

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