I really enjoyed writing this week’s Five Favorites for Friday post. It brought me down the nostalgia trail all the way back to my days defending insurance companies against LTD claims and then routed me back to the future with stories about the latest class action theories against plan fiduciaries and the future of benefit
This is a great, and I think pretty even handed, article by Bloomberg on litigating LTD claims under ERISA. Although the headline and the central thrust of the article are about obtaining LTD benefits for claims of long Covid, the article really does a nice job of explaining the entire LTD claim process and the
At this point in my career, I have litigated just about every type of ERISA claim I can think of, from denied benefit claims to deferred compensation/top hat claims to class actions. I have even made new law in the still developing area of equitable relief under ERISA. I got my start in ERISA litigation