Conservator Timely Filed Suit Within Disability Plan's Limitations Provision

Mealey's (September 29, 2020, 1:56 PM EDT) -- SANTA ANA, Calif. — A California federal judge on Sept. 21 denied a disability insurer's motion to dismiss a conservator's claims for benefits and equitable relief under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act because tolling of the disability plan's three-year limitations provision did not begin until the conservator of the disability plan participant was appointed (Joyce Poisson v. Aetna Life Insurance Co., No. 20-1030, C.D. Calif., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 177216)....