Lamb v. Connecticut General Life Insurance

OPINION OF THE COURT

ADAMS, Circuit Judge.

This appeal presents two related questions: first, whether Section 207 of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 407 (1976), prohibits the defendant, Connecticut General Life Insurance Company [CGLIC], from offsetting Social Security disability benefit increases received by the disabled plaintiff, Annaliese Lamb, against the benefits payable to the plaintiff under the terms of a group disability insurance policy; and second, whether the public policy expressed in Section 202 of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 402 (1976), forbids the additional…