Disability Claimant Seeks De Novo Review, Says Additional STD Benefits Are Owed

(June 5, 2024, 10:30 AM EDT) -- TULSA, Okla. — A de novo standard of review should be applied to the review of the denial of a short-term disability (STD) claim because the disability plan administrator committed a number of procedural irregularities in handling the claimant’s second appeal of the denial of his claim, the claimant says in an opening brief filed in Oklahoma federal court....