February 2012

Aetna Life Insurance Company (Aetna) was recently sued in three cases in the Federal Courts of Oregon, Tennessee, and Missouri by three separate Plaintiffs due to the wrongful denial of long-term disability benefits as covered by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). All three cases claim that Aetna wrongfully denied the rightful long-term disability…

A Colorado disability attorney filed a federal lawsuit in the Federal court against Liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston (Liberty) and Estes Express Lines (Estes). The Plaintiff, David F., was employed by Estes as an over-the-road truck driver. Due to this employment, Plaintiff was covered by an employee welfare benefit plan that was sponsored by…

 Product Analyst, Nancy W., 49, and her Arizona disability attorney filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona on October 26, 2011 against her employer Intel Corporation, Aetna Life Insurance Company and Reed Group (the administrator of Intel’s Aetna Plan) to force them to provide her with her entitled…

 Cigna again finds itself in court over termination of entitled disability benefits. In the United States District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania case Gena N. v. Liberty Insurance Company of North America a/k/a Cigna, Gina N. and her Pennsylvania disability attorney have appealed to the District Court to enter a judgment against…