Birmingham

ERISA Gives the Insurer Discretion to Make Benefits Decision
Carol Stewart sued Hartford Insurance Company to obtain two insurance benefits that she believes it owes her:

  • longterm disability payments and
  • a waiver of life-insurance premiums.
  • In Carol H. Stewart v.

    “I’m admitting young healthy people to the hospital with very serious COVID infections,” wrote Cobia, a hospitalist at Grandview Medical Center in Birmingham. “One of the last things they do before they’re intubated is beg me for the vaccine. I