Arizona Disability Claimant Denied Discovery Into Alleged Conflicts Of Interest

Mealey's (February 28, 2020, 9:45 AM EST) -- PHOENIX — A federal judge in Arizona on Feb. 25 denied a disability claimant’s request for discovery to supplement the administrative record in her suit alleging that her claim for long-term disability (LTD) was wrongfully denied, finding that she failed to demonstrate that the insurer’s alleged structural conflict of interest demands additional discovery or that information she sought about its medical reviewers’ alleged conflicts would be necessary for the court to conduct a de novo review (Leslie DeMarco v. Life Insurance Company of North America, et al., No. CV-19-02385, D. Ariz., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 31723)....