Lincoln Life Will Rethink Long Covid Disability Benefits Claim

Lincoln Life Assurance Co. of Boston agreed to reconsider a claim for disability benefits filed by an MFS Investment Management employee experiencing significant fatigue and shortness of breath after his bout with Covid-19 in March 2020.

Lincoln will provide a “voluntary, post-filing remand review” of the claim and allow the worker to submit additional documentation, the parties said in a Monday court filing. Judge Allison D. Burroughs of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts agreed Tuesday to put the case on pause while the parties work through this process, which they said will follow the Employee ...