Judge Lets Termination Of Former Lawyer’s LTD Benefits Stand

( September 30, 2026, 3:50 PM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — Declining to overturn termination of long-term disability (LTD) benefits in a case that involved conditions ranging from depression to postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), a California federal judge said the claimant failed to “connect the dots, so to speak, between any diagnoses and actual functional limitations that rendered her” disabled from her occupation as an attorney....