Claimant Says LTD Benefits Owed For Inability To Wear Face Mask While Working

(June 7, 2021, 11:48 PM EDT) -- SAN ANTONIO — A disability insurer should be ordered to pay a claimant more than $70,000 in past long-term disability (LTD) benefits, in addition to future LTD benefits, because the claimant’s respiratory illness prevented him from wearing a face mask, required by his employer in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the claimant says in a May 26 complaint filed in Texas federal court....