The Friday Five: Five ERISA Litigation Highlights - March 2026
This month’s Friday Five covers recent decisions on credibility pertaining to long COVID symptoms, weighing of disability evidence, overpayment accounting, preemption of state law claims, and a motion to compel discovery on financial incentives and other information. District of Vermont grants insurer’s motion for judgment on the record in long COVID case finding the plaintiff was not credible. Plaintiff was terminated from his engineering position because “his engagement ended with his client.” He submitted a claim for short-term disability (“STD”) and long-term disability (“LTD”) benefits, alleging inability to work due to symptoms of long COVID that pre-dated his termination . The District of Vermont did not reach the question of whether the de novo or arbitrary and capricious standard applied because it found the plaintiff’s claim did not survive even under the broader de novo standard, due in part to the plaintiff’s lack ...