Disability Claimant Is Owed Own-Occupation Disability Benefits, Federal Judge Says

Mealey's (June 30, 2020, 9:23 AM EDT) -- SANTA ANA, Calif. — A disability insurer must pay long-term disability (LTD) benefits to a claimant for the entirety of the disability plan’s own-occupation period because the claimant met her burden of proving that she was disabled from performing the duties of her own occupation, a California federal judge said June 16 (Nancy DeVries v. Aetna Life Insurance Co., No. 19-1499, C.D. Calif., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 105555)....