( September 8, 2025, 2:38 PM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — The Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Sept. 5 briefly affirmed summary judgment against a short-term disability (STD) claimant in an unpublished per curiam opinion, saying in part that the insurer “did not abuse its discretion by relying on the opinions of its nurse consultants over those of [claimant Monty] Jones’s counselor” and was not “required to provide an independent medical examination (IME) of Jones before deciding his claim.”...