Disability Insurer’s Offset Of Benefits Was Reasonable, 3rd Circuit Panel Determines

Mealey's (June 12, 2017, 12:11 PM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — A disability insurer was entitled to offset a disability claimant’s long-term disability benefits against income the claimant earned by working part time for her medical practice because the claimant still received the benefit of her earnings even though the earnings were applied against debt she owed her medical practice, the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said June 7 (Amy Patrick, M.D. v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Co., No. 16-3980, 3rd Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 10105)....