1st Circuit: Insurer Didn’t Abuse Its Discretion In Ending LTD Benefits

( August 28, 2025, 1:57 PM EDT) -- BOSTON — Saying in part that “[t]he administrative record supportably shows that” a marketing executive who had been awarded long-term disability (LTD) benefits based on chronic back pain “could meet every enumerated physical demand by the time” those benefits were terminated, the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Aug. 27 upheld summary judgment for an insurer....