Greenberg Traurig Lawyer Wins Second Look at Disability Claim

Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada must reconsider its decision denying disability benefits to a Greenberg Traurig LLP shareholder who said his severe fatigue prevented him from continuing to work as an attorney.

Sun Life was wrong to stop investigating the shareholder’s potential psychiatric or cognitive impairments midway through its consideration of his appeal, the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois held. It sent the benefits dispute back to the insurer so it could conduct a proper review.

The lawsuit was filed in 2020 by Trent Murch, a corporate attorney who stopped working in 2018 after ...