Blog Post

Nov 3, 2017

Timing is Everything: Tenth Circuit Overturns Insurer’s Disability Decision as Arbitrary and Capricious

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Even when a claims administrator approves a claim for disability benefits, its job is not done. That principle was again demonstrated in the recent case Owings v. United of Omaha Life Insurance Co., No. 16-3128 (10th Cir. Oct. 17, 2017). The plaintiff’s claim for long-term disability benefits had been approved, but he claimed that the benefits paid were based on the wrong salary.

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