Termination Of Disability Benefits Was Not Arbitrary Or Capricious, Judge Says

Mealey's (July 21, 2020, 11:31 AM EDT) -- BATON ROUGE, La. — A disability insurer's termination of long-term disability (LTD) benefits was not arbitrary and capricious because substantial medical evidence supported  the insurer's finding that the claimant's hearing loss did not prevent him from working in his own occupation, a Louisiana federal judge said July 20 (Steven W. Caskey v. The Prudential Insurance Company of America, No. 18-694, M.D. La., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 127254)....