Panel Says Opinions Of Disability Claimant's Treating Physicians Must Be Considered

SAN FRANCISCO - The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Jan. 7 vacated and remanded a disability claimant's suit seeking long-term disability benefits after determining that a district court erred in failing to consider letters from the claimant's treating physicians who were not provided with the opportunity to rebut the opinion of one of the insurer's examining physicians (Lea Wagenstein v. Cigna Life Insurance Co., et al., No. 18-55955, 9th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 482).
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