( August 9, 2024, 8:05 AM EDT) -- MINNEAPOLIS — A disability plan participant is entitled to retroactive long-term disability (LTD) benefits and future LTD benefits because the plan participant met her burden of proving by a preponderance of the evidence that cognitive difficulties rendered her disabled from performing the duties of her own occupation as an attorney, a Minneapolis federal judge said in granting the plan participant’s motion for judgment on the administrative record....