Pre-Existing Condition Exclusion Does Not Apply To Bar LTD Benefits, Panel Says

NEW ORLEANS - A disability insurer's denial of long-term disability (LTD) benefits was arbitrary and capricious because the claimant's treatment for a symptom that later turned out to be caused by ovarian cancer cannot be considered the condition that caused her disability, the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said June 11 in rejecting the insurer's argument that the plan's pre-existing condition exclusion barred the claim for LTD benefits (Marcia L. Smith v. United of Omaha Life Insurance Co., et al., No. 18-60753, 5th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 17367).
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