Disability Claimant Owed Benefits Under Own-Occupation Standard, Federal Judge Says

(April 14, 2017, 10:09 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — Because a disability claimant submitted substantial evidence proving that she was disabled  from her own occupation, the claimant is owed retroactive disability benefits for the 24-month period of disability under the own-occupation standard, a California federal judge said April 11 (Cathleen Murphy v. California Physicians Service, et al., No. 14-2581, N.D. Calif., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 55431)....