Morgan Lewis Securities Attorney Sues for Disability Pay (1)

A Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP attorney sued the firm’s welfare benefit plan and Unum Life Insurance Co. of America, saying her disability benefits were wrongly terminated despite the persistence of serious symptoms that were exacerbated by job-related stress.

Unum ended the attorney’s benefits by improperly focusing on whether she could perform the “generic duties of a lawyer” instead of assessing whether she was able to do the specific tasks required of a securities lawyer at a major firm, she said in a complaint filed April 19 in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The ...