First Reserve Bank of Cleveland Beats Long Covid Benefits Appeal

First Reserve Bank of Cleveland defeated a Sixth Circuit appeal by a former employee who said she was wrongly denied disability benefits on account of long-haul Covid-19.

The bank’s disability administrator validly concluded that the employee’s symptoms were improving with treatment and didn’t render her totally disabled, the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said Thursday. The administrator properly relied on the opinions of plaintiff Amanda Martin’s treating physicians, and on her “proven continued ability to work despite her condition,” the court said.

• Martin began working at the bank in 2018 and went on leave in 2022 after ...