9th Circuit Panel Upholds Plan’s Offset Of Disability Benefits

Mealey's (February 27, 2017, 2:33 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Plan language clearly allowed an insurer to offset permanent partial disability benefits by the amount of long-term disability benefits the employee received, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held Feb. 16 in an unpublished opinion (John Del Gallego v. Wells Fargo & Co. Long Term Disability Plan, et al., No. 15-15294, 9th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 2753)....