( February 10, 2026, 4:19 PM EST) -- MINNEAPOLIS — A long-term disability (LTD) insurer that is trying to get a federal magistrate judge’s discovery order reversed argues in a Minnesota federal court filing that the claimant should not have been allowed “to parse out conduct from an ordinary denial of benefits claim and re-brand it as a separate claim for breach of fiduciary duty and thereby obtain discovery in contravention of Eighth Circuit authority prohibiting discovery on” benefits claims asserted under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act....