Claimant With Back Pain Is Due LTD Benefits Under ‘Regular Occupation’ Standard

( September 23, 2025, 12:44 PM EDT) -- EUGENE, Ore. — Saying in part that reviewers “discredited Plaintiff’s subjective symptom testimony of chronic pain in contradiction to objective medical evidence in the record without providing a reasonable explanation,” an Oregon federal judge ruled that a desk worker was entitled to benefits during the plan’s “regular occupation” period but that the question of whether she was disabled under the subsequent “any occupation” period “is not properly before the court.”...