Judge: Former Surgeon Deserves Total Disability Benefits Due To ‘Injury’

( January 29, 2026, 9:01 AM EST) -- KALAMAZOO, Mich. — On de novo review, a Michigan federal judge concluded that insurers wrongly denied a total disability claim filed by a surgeon who had long received residual disability benefits because of back pain and that awarding him benefits outright is appropriate because the insurers “are not entitled to a ‘second bite at the apple.’”...