No Additional Benefits Owed To Disability Claimant, Panel Says In Affirming

Mealey's (December 7, 2020, 1:00 PM EST) -- ATLANTA — A district court did not err in finding that a disability claimant is not entitled to additional benefits under a cost of living adjustment (COLA) rider because once the claimant began collecting disability benefits under a lifetime rider, the benefits under the COLA rider were no longer available, the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said Dec. 1 (Lloyd Wickboldt v. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co., No. 19-14032, 11th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 37440)....