( May 12, 2026, 10:27 AM EDT) -- BUFFALO, N.Y. — On de novo review following a bench trial, a New York federal magistrate judge ruled that a claimant is entitled to retroactive long-term disability (LTD) benefits and prejudgment interest, concluding that “the cognitive effects of” brain cancer treatment left the claimant “unable to give notice of her long-term disability claim at the time that she stopped working in December 2009” and that “she gave notice ‘as soon as reasonably possible’ after her husband discovered the policy in September 2021.”...