Disability Insurer’s Termination Of Benefits Was Not Abuse Of Discretion

Mealey's (March 27, 2018, 9:18 AM EDT) -- LYNCHBURG, Va. — A disability insurer did not abuse its discretion in terminating a claimant’s long-term disability (LTD) benefits because the evidence supports the insurer’s conclusion that the claimant was not disabled as an engineer under the plan’s any-occupation standard, a Virginia federal judge said March 23 (Melvin Moore v. Life Insurance Company of North America, No. 17-030, W.D. Va., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 48313)....