Disability Benefits Must Be Reinstated; Evidence Supports Claimant’s Inability To Work

(May 4, 2018, 11:48 AM EDT) -- CINCINNATI — A disability claimant’s benefits must be reinstated because the disability insurer failed to give sufficient weight to the opinions of the claimant’s treating physicians, who stated that the claimant was unable to return to work after a leg injury, the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said May 3 in reversing a district court’s judgment in favor of the insurer (Richard Wagner v. American United Life Insurance, No. 17-4072, 6th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 11477)....