Termination Of LTD Benefits Upheld In Own-Occupation Case Involving Long COVID

( October 26, 2026, 8:09 AM EDT) -- WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Upholding termination of long-term disability (LTD) benefits for a client service manager whose diagnoses include long COVID, a Florida federal judge concluded that it was not arbitrary and capricious for the insurer to determine that she had failed to prove that she remained eligible under the plan’s own-occupation definition of disability....