Four Plaintiffs have filed lawsuits in the District Courts of Alabama, Florida, Missouri, and Kentucky against The Prudential Insurance Company Of America (Prudential) for the wrongful denial of disability benefits as defined by ERISA. In all four cases, Prudential is accused of wrongfully withholding the disability benefits as defined by the Plaintiff’s respective Plans.
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Employed at the Florida Coastal School of Law as a professor and later an associate dean for over ten years, Ms. Y was declared disabled by Prudential Life Insurance in a letter on January 21, 2011, but has not received any payments of those benefits six months later. In an attempt to collect her disability benefits, Ms. Y and her Florida disability attorney filed a federal complaint in the United States District Court of Florida.
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Generally, disability insurance companies do not try to deny an insured’s claim for short term disability benefits as the amount of benefits paid out is usually not substantial. Nevertheless, this does not mean that disability insurance companies always approve a claim for short term disability benefits. The recent case of Desiree C. Stasen Vs The Prudential Insurance Companies Of America (Prudential), filed by a Pennsylvania disability attorney at the District Court for the Eastern District Of Pennsylvania, goes to show that even applications for short term disability benefits are not immune to denial of claims by disability insurance companies. Let us have a closer look at this case.
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An Ohio disability attorney filed a legal action at the District Court for the Southern District of Ohio recently against the Prudential Insurance Company of America (Prudential) for violations of the provisions under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). In Marylee Duvall Vs Prudential Insurance Company of America, the plaintiff Marylee Duvall alleged that Prudential had arbitrarily and capriciously denied her claim for disability benefits by ignoring all the evidence submitted by the plaintiff to support her claim.
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Recently, a Colorado disability attorney filed a lawsuit against the Prudential Insurance Company of America Disability Management Service (Prudential) at the El Paso County’s District Court, Colorado. In Pamela J. Koehiler vs the Prudential Insurance Company of America Disability Management Service, the plaintiff is suing Prudential for failing to reinstate and pay her long term disability benefits.
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