In the case of Darren Cohen v. Aetna Life Insurance Company (Aetna), Plaintiff Darren Cohen was employed by a computer data storage technology company, STEC, Inc. His occupation was that of a Computer Systems Engineer, which required him to sit at his computer for 6-8 hours every day.

In Cooper v. Life Ins. Co. of North America, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit established precedent for those whose case arises in Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio or Tennessee. After the Plan’s denial of long term disability benefits to the complainant, that was upheld through two administrative appeals and by a Tennessee federal district court, the Sixth Circuit reversed. The court refused to remand the case to the plan administrator for further evaluation since it concluded “that Cooper has clearly established that she is disabled under the Plan.”
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