Mental Illness Limitation Is Not Valid Under Montana’s Mental Health Parity Law

(September 22, 2017, 1:55 PM EDT) -- BILLINGS, Mont. — A Montana federal judge on Sept. 20 granted a disability claimant’s motion for summary judgment after determining that Montana’s mental health parity law requires the plan to provide the claimant with the same benefits for her mental illness as it would if her disability were physical (Theresa Sand-Smith v. Liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston, No. 17-0004, D. Mont., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 153217)....

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