Demontbreun v. CNA Insurance Companies

OPINION

KOCH, Judge.

This appeal involves a worker’s efforts to obtain long-term disability benefits from a former employer’s group insurance carrier. When the insurer denied her claim, the worker filed an action in the Circuit Court for Sumner County seeking both disability benefits and the statutory bad faith penalty. After a jury returned a special verdict finding that the worker was totally disabled, the trial court entered an order directing the insurer to pay the worker disability benefits. The insurer has appealed, asserting that the trial court’s decision is inconsistent with the jury’s…