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Where a claimant challenged the termination of her disability benefits, the judgment is affirmed because the claimant failed to administratively exhaust her claim of breach of fiduciary duty. Judgment is affirmed. Jones v. Aetna Life Insurance Company (MLW No. 74242/Case ...

Tagged with: ERISA Exhaustion Of Remedies Fiduciary duty

Where a claimant of Social Security disability benefits challenged an order affirming the denial of benefits and supplemental security income, the administrative law judge properly gave little weight to the residual functional capacity opinion of the treating doctor because the ...

Tagged with: denial of benefits Residual Functional Capacity Social Security

Where a hospital association challenged a rule in a dispute arising from the agency’s definition of “costs incurred” for supplemental Medicaid payments, and the district court granted summary judgment in favor of the association, the rule was a reasonable exercise ...

Tagged with: Disproportionate Share Hospitals Limit Medicaid Payments

Where a claimant challenged the denial of disability insurance benefits and supplemental security income, substantial evidence supported a finding by the administrative law judge that the claimant’s speech apraxia was not disabling, so the judgment is affirmed. Judgment is affirmed. ...

Tagged with: denial of benefits Social Security Disability Speech Apraxia

Plaintiff appealed from the district court’s denial of her application for SSDI and SSI benefits. Where there was sufficient evidence to support an Administrative Law Judge’s determination that none of plaintiff’s impairments met any of the listings to qualify her ...

Tagged with: denial of benefits Evidence of Impairments SSDI and SSI

Where an employee terminated by a government agency challenged the decision of the Administrative Hearing Commission that found that the human resources director had the authority to fire him, the HR director did not have the authority to terminate the ...

Tagged with: Authority Termination Unauthorized Law

Where a claimant of supplemental security income under the Social Security Act challenged the denial of benefits, the administrative law judge did not err in determining that the claimant’s intellectual disorder was not severe enough to qualify as a listed ...

Tagged with: disability Intellectual Disorder Social Security Act

Plaintiff appealed the dismissal of his petition to the tax court. Where plaintiff failed to pay the filing fee, the tax court was authorized to dismiss plaintiff’s petition. Judgment is affirmed. Smith v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue (MLW No. 73892/Case ...

Tagged with: Dismissal of Petition Failure to Pay Filing Fee tax

Where a father appealed a determination by the state’s Family Support Division that affirmed the division’s certification to the U.S. Department of State that the father owed an arrearage of child support in an amount that exceeded $2,500, the judgment ...

Tagged with: Certification Child-Support Arrearage Educational Expenses

Where an accountant challenged the decision of the state’s board of accountancy placing her license on probation for three years, increasing her yearly continuing professional education requirement and ordering her to complete a remedial course, the discipline was an abuse ...

Tagged with: Accountancy License probation Professional Education Deficiencies

Where an insurer and employer challenged an award of benefits, costs and attorney fees in an action brought under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, the employee was enrolled in an optional life insurance benefit program after falsely certifying in ...

Tagged with: ERISA Life Insurance Optional Benefits Program