Weitzenkamp v. Unum Life Ins. Co. of America

LEFKOW, District Judge.

After being diagnosed with fibromyalgia, chronic pain, anxiety, and depression, Susie Weitzenkamp was awarded long-term disability benefits under an employee benefit plan (“the plan”) issued and administered by Unum Life Insurance Company (“Unum”). Benefits were discontinued a little more than twenty-four months later, when Unum determined that Weitzenkamp had received all to which she was entitled under the plan’s self-reported symptoms limitation. Because Weitzenkamp had retroactively received social security benefits, Unum also sought to recoup equivalent…