Mealey's (September 23, 2022, 12:18 PM EDT) -- PASADENA, Calif. — A district court erred in refusing to allow a disability claimant to supplement the administrative record with additional evidence to counter a disability insurer’s new rationale for terminating the claimant’s long-term disability benefits because the evidence used by the insurer to support its termination was not made available to the claimant before the denial of her administrative appeal, a panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said in reversing and remanding the district court’s ruling....