Ex-Deutsche Bank Executive Wins Disability Benefits From Unum

A Deutsche Bank executive who was terminated after suffering an injury that interfered with business travel won disability benefits from First Unum Life Insurance Co. after a federal judge in Boston said the insurer’s benefits denial was made in bad faith.

Unum said it needed to get more information from Deutsche Bank to determine whether Brian Host was entitled to disability benefits, “yet it did not take productive steps to do so, despite reasonable options available and no clear reasons for not pursuing these options,” Judge Douglas P. Woodlock of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts said ...