Lincoln National Hit With Class Claims Over Disability Plans

Lincoln National Life Insurance Co. wrongfully shortchanged benefits under its long-term disability plans by making improper offsets, according to a proposed class action filed by a litigator with Parkinson’s disease (Barber v. Lincoln Nat’l Life Ins. Co., W.D. Ky., No. 3:17-cv-00034-JHM-CHL, complaint filed 1/20/17).

The lawsuit, filed Jan. 20 in a federal court in Kentucky, claims that the disability insurer had a practice of reducing people’s benefit payments to account for other income they received, even though these offsets weren’t authorized by Lincoln’s disability plans. According to Oliver H. Barber III, the former litigator with Stites & Harbison ...