Mealey's (May 22, 2019, 1:22 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A disability claimant’s long-term disability (LTD) benefits must be based on the claimant’s full salary and not a reduced salary incorrectly implemented for two months by his employer because the terms of the claimant’s employment agreement provided that the claimant would receive a full salary beyond the date upon which the claimant became disabled, an Illinois federal judge said May 21 in granting the claimant’s motion for summary judgment (David Schewitz, M.D. v. Aetna Life Insurance Co., No. 18-6119, N.D. Ill., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 85157)....